Etiquette Module - quiz - GUEST

1. Which of these items does not need to include a citation indicating where it was published and who wrote it?

A. Los Angeles is a California city.
B. The more languages you can speak, the more intelligent you are.
C. The U.S. economy depends on labor provided by illegal immigrants.
D. Western medicine can learn a lot from Eastern medicine.

2. Plagiarism is…

A. using someone else's words without indicating who wrote them
B. summarizing what someone else wrote and providing a citation
C. writing your own thoughts about someone else's ideas.
D. using someone else's ideas and saying whose they were.

3. You are plagiarizing when you…

A. use someone else's ideas from a book, an article or a web site, and indicate where you got those ide
B. put quotes around words written by others and give complete information about where they were published
C. paraphrase just by changing a word or two in the sentences someone else wrote.
D. write about someone else's ideas and list where you found those ideas.

4. You can paraphrase words someone else has written by…

A. adding "I think" at the beginning of those words.
B. discussing them and giving your own interpretation
C. using synonyms for some of the words.
D. adding another adjective or two.

5. It is ok to copy text from a web site and paste it into your paper if you…

A. change 1 or 2 words
B. only use it once
C. use only some of the text on the web site.
D. put it in quotes and give the full citation.