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4.3 Assignment

Objectives:

• Define plagiarism.
• Determine when material from a source needs to be cited.

Instructions:

1. Read Chapter 11 of Practical Argument. 
2. Do Exercises 11.1 and 11.2 in Chapter 11.

Tips:

In order to complete the exercises correctly, you should know the answers to these questions (do NOT answer them in writing):

• What is plagiarism? 
• What are some examples of deliberate plagiarism?
• What are some examples of plagiarizing without intending to?
• What is common knowledge? 
• If you use an image or chart from the internet in a presentation, do you have to give credit? 
• If you put a source's ideas into your own words, do you need to document the source?
• If you look for ideas on the internet and use them in an essay, have you plagiarized if you don't remember where you saw the ideas you used?