Case 1.

Sam is feeling sick and doesnt attend her weekly online classes on Wednesday and Thursday. She realizes half an hour before her English report is due on Thursday night that she has not prepared it yet. Sam contacts her classmate Albert and asks him if she can borrow" his assignment. She promises she will not copy him, but just wants to look at his assignment to make sure that her formatting is correct. Albert shares his assignment with Samantha. She copies and pastes it into a new Word document. Then she changes several phrases and words, using a Thesaurus. Their instructor runs both assignments through the Turnitin app, which finds 42% similarity between two the assignments.

• Which student(s) will receive a zero on the assignment?
• What should Sam have done instead of copying Albert's assignment, if she was sick and needed more time to complete the assignment?

Case 2.

Eugene is preparing a Case Study Report due in 2 hours. He copies the first paragraph from a website, but writes the second and third paragraphs himself, based on the information in the second and third paragraphs on the same website. He does not include quotation marks or any citations in his report, but he lists the website he took the information from at the bottom of his report.

• Has Eugene plagiarized? Why or why not?
• If he had written the first paragraph in his own words, would it be plagiarism?

Case 3.

Lily, a third semester student, has a final assignment due on Thursday morning. She previously received a mark of zero and a first plagiarism charge on an English assignment during first semester. On Wednesday night, she decides to resubmit an assignment from a previous Business course she took in second semester with a different instructor. When her current instructor runs Lily's assignment through Turnitin, she finds it is a 100% match with Lilys previous assignment.

• Are students always expected to submit new work, or can they reuse assigments from previous courses?
• Will Lily receive any penalties for plagiarism, and if so, what will the penalty be this time?

Case 4.

Jill and Lara have an online discussion activity about Employment Law due in half an hour. It is an individual activity worth attendance marks but no formal course marks. They are each required to submit 100 words. Both of them failed the course in the previous semester because they received their second plagiarism charges. They discuss the activity together on the phone and plan their answers. Lara types her assignment first and posts it on Schoology. Then Jill copies Lara's words and pastes them into a website she found that changes several of the words and phrases. The website changes the words Employment Standards Act to working requirements depiction. It also changes the words contract to deal and acceptance to agreement.

• Will the students receive attendance marks? Why or why not?
• Will either student receive a formal plagiarism charge? If so, what will be the penalty?

Case 5. Tom submits a Report that includes a two-sentence quotation from a respected doctor from an article published in the New York Times. Tom copies the doctors exact spoken words from the article and pastes them into his Report. He puts quotation marks on either end, followed by a citation to the article, which is also listed in the References section at the end.

• Has Tom plagiarized? Why or why not?
• If Toms instructor asked him to use APA format, and he used MLA format instead, will he lose marks?