The Toronto Star Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:44:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg The Toronto Star Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Head Of Canada’s Largest School Board Resigns Over Plagiarism https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/01/13/1-head-of-canadas-largest-school-board-resigns-over-plagiarism/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/01/13/1-head-of-canadas-largest-school-board-resigns-over-plagiarism/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:03:49 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=8716 Last week, thousands of children in Toronto learned an important lesson about the seriousness of plagiarism, from the head of the largest school board in Canada.

Plagiarism is when you copy someone else’s work and claim the ideas or writing as your own.

When you use someone else’s writing in a school report, for instance, you must let the reader know where the passage came from.

That’s known as “citing the source” or “giving attribution.”

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