Plagiarism Pre-Test

Song lyrics don't have to be cited, since they aren't in books.

You only need a citation if you copy a whole sentence from a book.

If an author is famous, you don't need to cite their work, since it is common knowledge.

You place a citation at the end of sentence, even if the quote is at the beginning.

You don't need to use quotes, as long as you mention the name of the author in your paragraph.

If you quote someone who you spoke to, you don't need a citation, since you know the person.

Copying from the Internet is ok, because everything on the Internet is common knowledge.

If you borrow someone's idea, you don't have to cite it, since you aren't quoting.

You don't need to cite a well-known fact, since it is considered common knowledge.

To make a citation, you need the author's first and last name, as well as the page number.

You don't need a citation to state that Lincoln was our 16th president.

You can copy passages from Wikipedia without a citation, since it is common knowledge.

When you summarize, you must still use a citation, even though you don't use quotes.

Using phrases from an article and mixing them with your own words requires a citation.

Some ideas you read help you with a paper, but you didn't copy, so you don't need a citation.

The years of the Civil War are common knowledge, so you don't have to cite a source for them.