Which answer best defines plagiarism?

Both paraphrased and summarized data must be given credit through in-text citations and bibliographic citations/works cited.

Imagine that your instructor asks you to write a persuasive essay. You're lucky enough to have done this exact assignment in high school, so instead of writing a new essay, you just slightly revise the old one. Would this be considered plagiarism?

Which is not a possible consequence for plagiarizing?

You've done a ton of original research for a statistics project, but you just can't prove your hypothesis that the majority of college students adore Katy Perry. Rather than admit that only .9% of students can tolerate KP, you move the decimal point and declare that 90% of students are Katycats. This is an example of:

Unlike deliberate plagiarism, ___________________ can happen accidentally--for example, if a student doesn't cite carefully.

Imagine that it's late and you're rushing to finish an essay. You got most of your info from Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers, but naturally you don't want to admit that. Instead, you invent some fancy-sounding names and pretend to be quoting experts. What type of violation is this?

What is patchwriting?

Here is a passage from a New York Times article: The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department's civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants. A student reads this source and then writes the following: According to the New York Times, Trump's administration is getting ready to redirect resources of the civil rights division to investigate and sue universities over affirmative action policies. Has this student committed plagiarism? Choose the right answer AND the right justification for your answer below.

If you are summarizing an article, and not paraphrasing or quoting it, then you do not need to cite the article.

Here is a passage from the article "Martin's Minds Focus on Future" by Amber Stearns of Nuvo Magazine: The majority of Historically Black Colleges and Universities were founded and established in the mid-to-late 1800s at a time when freed slaves were hungry to learn. Which of the following passages uses this source material without plagiarizing?

Quoting too much of an source, while not considered plagiarism, can still be a problem.