There are many websites that provide practical cases of situations on whether an act constitutes plagiarism or not. Besides finding out on your own, you may want to try the following. Nearly all of them provide further explanations on whichever choice you make.
1. This site gives 9 situations and asks you to identify whether they constitute plagiarism.
http://plagiarism.umf.maine.edu/is_it.html 2.Another good exercise on plagiarism. Similar to the above one, but simpler in that there are only 6 questions, for which you have to give either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers.
http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/library.nsf/wholeshortlinks2/Plagiarism+Quiz?opendocument 3. This quiz is entitled ‘Don’t do this’. There are 9 situations or cases given. You are asked to respond to each, for which explanations are further given.
http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/student-conduct/aiquiz.html4. Try these out as well:
http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/tutorials/interactive/plagiarism/tutorial/Plagiarism-Pretest-QUIZ.htmhttp://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/citing-quiz/quiz.swf
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