Cheating and plagiarism are unacceptable. No grade is more important than a person’s integrity. Follow your conscience and choose to be honest. Examples of what I would consider cheating or plagiarism:
All drafts submitted to the teacher must be free of plagiarism.
Consequences of Cheating/Plagiarism:
- leaving books or binders open during a testing situation
- using crib-sheets
- writing answers on desk tops, on hands and other parts of the body
- looking in the direction of another’s test paper or computer
- viewing files or websites to acquire answers during an assessment
- attempting to take an online test or quiz outside of the classroom environment
- talking with another student during a testing situation
- writing down answers copied from others when tests are handed in
- talking with students from previous class periods in order to get test information
- obtaining homework answers from another student unless authorized to do so. (If I want students to collaborate, I will tell them.)
- copying another person’s work with minor changes
- ceasing to try to figure out an answer on one’s own and simply writing down another person’s response. On homework, do your best to solve on your own. At least make your best guess.
- turning in a paper which has phrases obtained from another person
- handing in a paper for credit which has already been written in another class
- copying word-for-word any portion of a source, including from computer sources. If you do quote a source word-for-word, place this quote within quotation marks and document it (footnote/bibliography).
- Using text written by a system generated online as if the phrasing were your own (ex: using a paraphrase generator or other artificial intelligence (AI) tool to generate text and putting that text into your paper). Beware of artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT)--it can have unreliable results akin to Wikipedia. Better to use scholarly sources for papers. If you do use a product to craft sentences for a paper, put the sentence in quotation marks to show you did not write the sentence yourself and cite the source so that you indicate to the reader what you used.
All drafts submitted to the teacher must be free of plagiarism.
Consequences of Cheating/Plagiarism:
- You will earn a zero for that activity, along with a comment on ProgressBook indicating the reason for the zero.
- I will submit a report to the Main Office, where further disciplinary action may be taken.