You hand in an essay for one subject that you have already submitted for another: plagiarism?

You borrow sentences or paragraphs from someone else and put them in your assignment. Although you haven’t used quotation marks, you have provided correct citations (or footnotes): so you haven’t plagiarised, have you?

You hand in an essay where almost every line is a direct quotation from a source. In fact, you have done a lot of reading for this assignment. You have referenced these sources correctly (quotation marks and citation), so it can’t be plagiarism - or is it?

You find a great source for research on the internet. The website doesn't provide an 'author', and you can't find a date, so you copy the information and use it in your assignment. Is this plagiarism?

Which of the following is an example of padding a Reference List? 

('Padding' means adding sources to a Reference List without actually using them in the assessment task)

Do you think that the following passage from a student paper is suspicious? If so, why? If not, why not?

Landscape made up of things that work together to make them look good or look bad. We have to understand landscape looking. Depending on how we see these objects - our distance from them, for example, we can treat them as one of four basic elements - a point, a line, a plane or a volume. These relate to the dimensions found in Euclidean geometry and, as such, they can be regarded as simplifications of the real world, which tends to display a rather more complex type of geometry called 'fractal' geometry. An example is when we see things in the distance we think of them as points, especially when there is nothing else in the landscape.

You have found an image from the internet that you want to use to illustrate your assignment.  You copy and paste the url address for the image that you have found via Google below the image.   Is this the right way to reference an image?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa

Last week your lecturer talked about her theory of the best method for electoral reform during the class. These ideas are very helpful to your assignment, so you go back to the lecture recording and Powerpoints and use some of her key points. Since she already knows all about it, and has shared this information with the whole class, do you need to reference the ideas that you use in your assignment?

You are reading an article that cites a very useful book  on your research topic You decide not to obtain this book. Instead, you include a summary of the book's findings in your assignment, in your own words, and include both an in-text citation and an entry in your Reference List to this book.  Is this plagiarism?

You are working on an assessment task on death and dying and in the course of your research you have talked to a family friend whose child recently died. You want to include something she said to you. Do you have to reference this, and if so, how would you do it?