PRESENTATION OUTLINE
True or False?
Plagiarism is illegal.
False!
It is an ethical violation, not a legal one.
True or False?Plagiarism is using someone else's work without their permission.
False!
That is copyright infringement. They are not the same thing.
True or False?
You don't have to cite when you paraphrase, only when you quote.
False!
Whether you quote, paraphrase, or summarize from a source, you must cite it.
True or False?
No citation is needed for widely known facts, such as water is H2O, or Jackson was our 7th president.
True!
You don't have to cite common knowledge, since no individual person discovered that information.
True or False?
Adding a hyperlink is a good way to cite sources in an academic paper.
False!
Hyperlinks are for writing on the web. Formal citations are for academic papers.
