Cheating and Plagiarism

What to know and how to avoid

them
 Cheating
• Cheating is any attempt at passing off a paper
(or parts of a paper) written by another
student or person as your own work.
• Cheating generally involves colluding with
another student or another person.
• Keep in mind this paper is your own work. Any
effort to cheat will be rewarded with a zero on
your paper.
 Examples of Cheating
• Paying someone to write a paper for you.
• Using a paper written by a former student.
• Working with other students to reword
paragraphs in an effort to turn one paper into
several papers (Canvas has partnered with
turnitin.com. This site will detect such an
effort).
 Plagiarism
• Any effort to pass off a published work of any
form as your own work.
• Most plagiarism comes from a failure to
properly cite information pulled from online
or text sources.
 Important Citation Information
• Always be sure to cite information that you
are using. When in doubt, CITE!
• If you ever take information from another
source, even if it is not a direct quote, you
MUST cite where you got the information!
 Direct Quotes
• Any time you use a word-for-word sentence
from another source (copy and paste) you
must include the text with quotation marks
and cite where it came from.
 Example
• The following was written in a story by Gallup
Poll:
– far fewer Americans, 14%, see North Korea as the
United States’ greatest enemy than the 51% who
did a year ago.
• In order to use this it must be properly cited.
 Example
• A student would need to write the following:
• “[…] far fewer Americans, 14%, see North Korea as the
United States’ greatest enemy than the 51% who did a year
ago.” (Reinhart 2019)
• Reinhart, R.J. 2019. “Far Fewer Americans See North Korea
as Greatest U.S. Enemy.” Gallup.
•You can use word-to-word quotes from online
or text sources but they must always be
accompanied with the citation and quotation
marks.
 Paraphrase
• If you use information from a source, but you
alter the wording so that they are now your
own words, you no longer need to put
quotation marks around the statement.
However, you still need to cite.
 Example
• Lets look at the Gallup example once again:
• Gallup wrote:
• far fewer Americans, 14%, see North Korea as the United
States’ greatest enemy than the 51% who did a year ago.
• A student wrote:
• Many Americans no longer view North Korea as the United
States’ greatest enemy. Only 14% still feel North Korea is
the greatest enemy of the U.S. (Reinhardt 2019)
• Reinhart, R.J. 2019. “Far Fewer Americans See North Korea
as Greatest U.S. Enemy.” Gallup.
 Example
• Even though the student rewrote the text in
their own words they still had to cite where
the information was taken from.
• ALWAYS cite where you get your information.
Failure to do so will hurt your grade.
• Any plagiarism, as noted by the rubric, will
result in a failing grade.