Plagiarism or Paraphrasing

Hi, my name is Davis and I am a student training to be a teacher. We are required to study plagiarism in the classroom and assigned subjects to study under. Mine is the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing.
Please answer the questions honestly, followed with your education level, gender, and age so I can arrange the statistics accordingly when I am through.

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I Agree

* What disciplinary actions do you think should happen when someone is caught plagiarizing?

* Do you think that if all students were required to take a course on plagiarism the number of students doing so would decrease?s:

* What is plagiarism?

* In your own words, define paraphrasing?

* Which of these would you consider plagiarism: changing around or substituting words from a source of text OR repeating the text in your own words to explain the source?

* When does someone else ideas become your own?

* Do you consider plagiarism a serious offense? Why or why not?

* Age / Gender / Education Level