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Assignment Scenarios

1. If you've run out of time and your paper is due, you should:

  • to write the paper for you


2. Can you submit an assignment that includes portions created or produced by someone else?



3. Under which of the following circumstances is it not necessary to credit your source?

  • a) When you have paraphrased (i.e. put in your own words) another author's ideas.
    b) When you have copied another's words verbatim and placed them in quotation marks.
    c) When the information you are including would be regarded as common knowledge by your audience.
    d) When you have included a graphic that you found freely available on the Internet

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