• Read for each situation, and determine whether the student has plagiarized.

1. John has not had time to work on his online assignment on psychological theory. He found a website that has an article with the content he needs to complete his assignment. However, he has only 30 minutes before his assignment is due. John believes that the author of the article described psychological theory so well that it would take John hours to paraphrase the material. John decides to copy several sentences and one short paragraph from the article and paste it into his own paper. He includes the author in the references and believes that this appropriately cites the author.

I believe this has been copied because he took another person's thoughts. He blatantly copied and pasted the work from the article. Does this seem correct? John did not follow the codes of the American Psychological Assoc when completing his assignment.

2. Sally has a writing assignment due. She has written about the topic before in a previous course and received 100% on that paper. She decides to include several paragraphs from her previous work in her current paper.

I believe she should cite her own work she completed and would get the credit for the work she completed. If she feel it should be hidden then she is a cheater and used someone's words. I am still unsure if copying your own work is cheating when you are the original author. Is this correct in my thought?