Mrs. Low's Plagiarism Policy
Our school values academic integrity and does not condone any form of dishonesty, deception, or plagiarism of any kind, including academic dishonesty – when individuals or groups take credit for work that is not completely theirs.
Plagiarism of someone else’s work not only violates class and school integrity, but it is illegal. Plagiarism includes ANY copying of someone else’s work, not only written assignments, problems, research papers, books, articles, websites, captions, textbooks, speeches, handouts, charts, and diagrams, but also art, graphics, computer programs, music and videos/DVD material.
Unfortunately, it is common to disguise academic dishonesty, using terms such as copying, sharing, and borrowing to dismiss the seriousness of this offense. Passing off someone else’s work as your own is a form of stealing. Students are expected to do their OWN work at all times. The only possible exception would be group or partner work assigned as collaborative BY A TEACHER.
All of the following constitute plagiarism:
Consequences of Plagiarism:
Plagiarism may result in a failing grade on the assignment, at the discretion of the teacher. Further action may result if considered appropriate by the teacher and administration of VHMS.
Avoiding Plagiarism:
Do your own work, including writing papers, assignments, other written work, working math and science problems, doing assigned projects and experiments with possible corresponding write-ups or reports, completing worksheets, written exercises, and everything else assigned in class.
Always include citations for direct quotations and for paraphrased or summarized passages in MLA or other styles required by your teacher.
When you are unsure, ASK your English teacher.
Sources:
Bonneville High School. “Plagiarism/Cheating Policy.” Weber School District. Web. SHHS. 12 Jan 2011
Mountain Crest High School. “Introduction to Writing Disclosure Statement.” Text.
UC Davis Office of Judicial Affairs. “Avoiding Plagiarism.” University of California Davis. Web. SHHS. 12 Jan 2011.
Plagiarism of someone else’s work not only violates class and school integrity, but it is illegal. Plagiarism includes ANY copying of someone else’s work, not only written assignments, problems, research papers, books, articles, websites, captions, textbooks, speeches, handouts, charts, and diagrams, but also art, graphics, computer programs, music and videos/DVD material.
Unfortunately, it is common to disguise academic dishonesty, using terms such as copying, sharing, and borrowing to dismiss the seriousness of this offense. Passing off someone else’s work as your own is a form of stealing. Students are expected to do their OWN work at all times. The only possible exception would be group or partner work assigned as collaborative BY A TEACHER.
All of the following constitute plagiarism:
- Turning in someone else’s work as your own, whether that work is original to a student, parent, commercial author/editor/tutor, someone who posted the work online, or any other adult or adolescent. This offense includes copying another’s worksheet or math problem/solution, as well as copying more lengthy writing assignments, answers, papers, etc.
- Collaborating on an assignment beyond brainstorming and prewriting without explicit permission from a teacher.
- Copying words or ideas from a source without giving credit.
- Failing to put any words copied from your source in quotation marks with source citations to credit your source.
- Changing the wording, but using the ideas and sentence structure of your source without giving credit.
- Using so much of the wording or ideas from one source that it makes up the majority of your own work, whether you give credit or not.
- Cutting and pasting work from several sources to make up most of your work, whether you give credit or not.
Consequences of Plagiarism:
Plagiarism may result in a failing grade on the assignment, at the discretion of the teacher. Further action may result if considered appropriate by the teacher and administration of VHMS.
Avoiding Plagiarism:
Do your own work, including writing papers, assignments, other written work, working math and science problems, doing assigned projects and experiments with possible corresponding write-ups or reports, completing worksheets, written exercises, and everything else assigned in class.
Always include citations for direct quotations and for paraphrased or summarized passages in MLA or other styles required by your teacher.
When you are unsure, ASK your English teacher.
Sources:
Bonneville High School. “Plagiarism/Cheating Policy.” Weber School District. Web. SHHS. 12 Jan 2011
Mountain Crest High School. “Introduction to Writing Disclosure Statement.” Text.
UC Davis Office of Judicial Affairs. “Avoiding Plagiarism.” University of California Davis. Web. SHHS. 12 Jan 2011.
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