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Please choose the best answer.

1. Plagiarism is the act of:
a. using someone else's work and citing it
b. using copyrighted materials for your paper
c. using someone else's work and not giving them credit
d. paraphrasing

2. Which of the following is copyrighted infringement?
a. photocopying a college textbook
b. burning a CD that you did not own
c. downloading music or movies that you did not pay for
d. buying and submitting papers that you did not write
e. all of the above

3. Accidental plagiarism is:
a. acceptable one time, as long as it was only an accident
b. okay if you paraphrased or changed the text a bit
c. always unacceptable

4. When citing my resources it is important that I:
a. use a standard citation format assigned by your professor
b. include only the title and year
c. use footnotes, in-text citations, and italics for every citation
d. all of the above

5. RefWorks can help you:
a. organize your research
b. only when you are using the MLA citation style
c. import references from many different data sources
d. create bibliographies using several citation styles
e. all of the above
f. a, c, d

6. Which of the following best describes plagiarism?
a. A temporary fix until you have time to re-do the work
b. It's a serious offense and can result in severe penalties
c. It's easy to commit and not easy to detect
d. a and b

7. When do you have to cite your resources?
a. when what you are writing about is your own experience
b. when what you are writing about is common knowledge
c. when what you are writing about is someone else's idea