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The following is intended as a guideline
for students and parents. It is not
meant to be an all-inclusive list. The
judgment of faculty and administrators
is always the final resource for
determining what behaviors constitute
cheating. The following are some of
the actions which constitute cheating
and will result in disciplinary action:
- Copying someone else’s homework, or
allowing someone to copy your homework,
whether handwritten or
computer-generated.
- In science classes, copying data from
lab partners is acceptable; copying
conclusions is not.
Using any materials (for example,
notes), other than those permitted by
the teacher, while taking a test or
quiz.
- Asking for or giving specific
information about a test already taken
by another student. All test items are
confidential.
- Asking for or giving information to
another student while taking a test or
quiz. This includes looking at someone
else’s work or allowing someone else to
look at the student’s own paper. This
includes receiving information from an
unauthorized source.
- Talking during a test or quiz, even if
one’s paper is already handed in, until
all students have finished the task.
- Copying anyone else’s work (another
student, a parent, or a published
source) and handing it in as student’s
own work.*
- Listing a bibliography from an
encyclopedia, the card catalog, or an
electronic source as the student’s own
Works Cited list. Each item on Works
Cited list must be read and used by the
student.
If another person typed a paper for a
student, credit must be acknowledged.
- Copying and Pasting segments of
information off an internet web site and
turning it in as the student’s own work.
PLEASE NOTE: Giving and asking for
information with respect to homework or
tests are considered equally wrong.
| *Applies equally to materials from
print and electronic sources (computer,
radio, television, videos, etc.) The
following page details what constitutes
plagiarism. Any material taken directly
from a computer source, just as with any
source, constitutes cheating, unless the
student rewrites in his or her own words
or uses quotation marks. |
Plagiarism is the unauthorized use of
someone else's thoughts or wording
either by incorrect documentation,
failing to cite your sources altogether,
or simply by relying way too heavily on
external resources.
Plagiarism does not give due credit
to the party who really came up with the
language and/or idea, but also fails to
inform the reader that the information
originated from an outside source which
they might have had the option of
consulting had adequate acknowledgments
been provided. Plagiarism undermines your academic
integrity. It betrays your own
responsibilities as a student writer,
your audience, and the very research
community you were entering by deciding
to write a research paper in the first
place. Whether intentional or, as is more often
the case, inadvertent, the result is
that some or all of another author's
ideas become represented as your own.
It's like lip-synching to someone else's
voice and accepting the applause and
rewards for yourself. Incidentally, plagiarism also includes
informal published material such as the
re-use of the same paper for more than
one course or "buying" a paper from
another student. |
