You had a brilliant brainwave about the topic you are writing an essay about. But when reading an article about the topic, after you have gone on to do some research, you see that the same idea is mentioned. It was your own idea too, before you read the article, so do you need to reference it?Question 10Select one:a.Yes. Great minds think alike, but even if you did think of the idea on your own you still need to reference the published source. Otherwise, readers will accuse you of plagiarism. You can use this source to support your argument, and you can try to show how your idea differs from the other author's, but you still have to cite the other source.b.No. If you come up with an idea on your own, you don't have to cite the other source.

QuestionYou use find some information in a source that answers your inquiry question. You put the argument into your essay. You write it in your own words but you put in an intext citation. Have you plagiarised?

Module 3: Plagiarism12 of 1812 of 18 Items08:10QuestionYou paraphrase an idea you really like from a reading and put it in the essay you are working on. It's in your own words, so you don't bother with a citation. Have you plagiarised?Responsesa YesYesb No

If you wished to write an essay which used the ideas of a researcher who published a book, which of these would be the best course of action to avoid committing plagiarism?ResponsesA Summarize the author's ideas, and give credit where due.Summarize the author's ideas, and give credit where due.B Avoid discussing the author's ideas.Avoid discussing the author's ideas.C Quote the author directly, but don't tell where the quote came from.Quote the author directly, but don't tell where the quote came from.D Discuss the author's ideas, but phrase them differently while refraining from mentioning the author by name.

Even if you don't use someone else's words, that person's ideas must be cited if used in a paper.

Citation and PlagiarismWhen incorporating sources into a research project, you must provide citations for all information, ideas, and other materials that are neither common knowledge nor original to you. Common knowledge includes information and ideas that your audience can be expected to know from a variety of sources. Material original to you includes both your own ideas and the results of any field observations, surveys, or experiments that you have conducted. A reader should be able to tell, based on your citations, which parts of your written work are derived from sources and which are either common knowledge or original to you. Failure to cite sources properly, even when unintentional, exposes you to charges of plagiarism.Complete the multiple-choice exercises about the citation of sources.Suppose that you write a three-sentence paragraph in an analysis for a literature class. Sentence one consists of your paraphrase of statements an author made about her recent novel in an interview you conducted with her for a literary magazine, sentence two consists of your disagreement with a quotation from a prominent critic's review of that novel, and sentence three summarizes the argument that took place on the comments thread of another person's blog entry about that novel. Which of the following describes the proper approach to citation?Multiple ChoiceYou should cite the interview at the end of sentence one, the review at the end of sentence two, and the blog entry at the end of sentence three.You should cite only the review, at the end of sentence two.You should cite the review at the end of sentence two and the blog entry at the end of sentence three.You should cite the review and the blog entry at the end of the paragraph.