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C3 inquiry skills practice on why sources must be cited and what counts as plagiarism.
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In a school report, what does the word plagiarism describe?
A report states a fact taken from a history book and adds a citation right after it. What does that citation do?
A student rewrites a paragraph from a magazine article completely in her own words and never mentions the article anywhere. What is wrong with her report?
What do quotation marks around a sentence in a report tell the reader?
What kind of statement in a Grade 6 report usually needs no citation?
Copying a sentence from a source, changing a few words, and leaving out the source is still plagiarism.
A student copies a photograph from a website into her report. What does the report need?
Besides the title, what information does a citation for a book normally give?
What information does a citation for a web page include that a book citation does not?
In writing a report, what does attribution mean?
What is the purpose of the works cited list at the end of a report?
A student asks a classmate for permission and then hands in the classmate's paragraph under his own name. How is that work described?
A student copies a paragraph word for word and lists the book in her works cited page, but uses no quotation marks. She has still plagiarized.
How do citations help a reader corroborate a claim made in a report?
While taking notes from a book, why should a student mark which sentences were copied word for word?
A student cites a website whose facts turn out to be made up. What has the citation done?
How does paraphrasing a source differ from quoting it?
A student quotes two lines from a soldier's wartime diary that she read in an archive collection. What must her citation name?
What is an in-text citation?
A student copies a number from a chart in a government report into her own writing. What should she do with it?
A student interviews a museum guide and uses the guide's words in a report. What does the citation give?
A student takes a fact from an online video and puts it in a report. What must the report include?
What part of a research report needs no citation?
A report names the author of every source it uses. How does that help a reader judge point of view?
A student wants to use a full paragraph from a book exactly as it is written. What does her report need?
A student finds the wording of a medieval charter quoted inside a modern textbook and uses that wording. What should the citation show?
In a research report, how does a citation differ from a claim?
A student's works cited list includes books by authors named Lee, Adams, and Moreno. In what order should the entries appear?
A student includes a counterclaim she found in a second historian's book. What does her report owe that historian?
A student finds the same undisputed date stated in five general reference books. How is a fact like that usually treated in a report?
A student draws her own map of a region using population figures copied from an atlas. What needs crediting?
A student builds a paragraph by stitching together phrases from three articles without naming any of them. How should she fix the paragraph?
Why does a citation for a web page record the date the student viewed it?
A report gives two different dates for one battle and cites a separate source for each. What can the reader now do?
A student describes a bronze vessel she saw on display and uses the museum's information about it. What does her citation name?
A student translates a paragraph from a Spanish newspaper article into English and puts it in her report. What is required?
Putting quotation marks around a copied sentence, with no source named anywhere, gives that sentence enough credit.
Plagiarism applies only to written words and never to images, music, or video.
In a research report, what does the word source mean?
A student copies an author's exact sentence into her notes. What should she write down beside it?
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