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Understanding Plagiarism Scenarios

The document discusses an assignment about academic situations involving plagiarism. It provides 10 situations and indicates whether each would be considered plagiarism or not. It also includes identifying information about the presenter and university.

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Understanding Plagiarism Scenarios

The document discusses an assignment about academic situations involving plagiarism. It provides 10 situations and indicates whether each would be considered plagiarism or not. It also includes identifying information about the presenter and university.

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Assignment Week 7

Presented by: Heder Martinez

Code: 10886482

Group: COM121-1601-S3

Tutor: Leyda Alvarez

Open and Distance National University

San Marcos, Sucre

May 2022
Read the following academic situations and decide if they are plagiarism or not.

Situation Yes/No
1 Copying a paragraph, but changing a few words and giving a No
citation.
2 Cutting and pasting a short article from website, with no Yes
citation.
3 Taking two paragraphs from classmate´s essay, without citation. Yes
4 Taking a graph from a textbook, giving the source. No
5 Taking a quotation from a source, giving a citation but not using Yes
quotation marks.
6 Using something that you think of as general knowledge, e.g. No
large areas of rainforest have been cut down in recent years.
7 Using a paragraph from an essay you wrote and had marked the Yes
previous semester, without citation.
8 Using the results of yours own research, e.g. from a survey, No
without citation.
9 Discussing an essay topic with a group of classmates and using No
some of their ideas in your own work.
10 Giving a citation for some information but mis-spelling the Yes
author´s name.

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