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Academic Dishonesty & Plagiarism

What is Academic Dishonesty?

A student’s use of unauthorized assistance with intent to deceive an instructor or other such person who may be assigned to evaluate the work.

What is Plagiarism?

To use or pass off the ideas or writings of another as one’s own.

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Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism, cheating, or any other form of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Below is a list of examples of academic dishonesty. Not every form of academic dishonesty is listed here.

Copying someone else’s work from current or previous years
Using any aide (such as notes, a calculator, a textbook, cell phone or - unless the teacher allows this)
Writing a report or completing classwork / homework for someone else
Giving or receiving answers verbally, or through signals, writing, technology (including cell phones or other electronic devices)
Possessing an electronic device including a cell phone during an established testing environment without the explicit permission of the teacher

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Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism, cheating, or any other form of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Below is a list of examples of academic dishonesty. Not every form of academic dishonesty is listed here.

Plagiarism – Copying all or part of an electronic or print source without quotation marks and proper citation (copying more than five consecutive words from a source is considered to be plagiarism)
Plagiarism – Copying all or part of another student’s paper
Plagiarism –Using a translator to produce phrases or sentences in another language
Plagiarism –Paraphrasing a specific source without proper citation

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Plagiarism Policy

What happens if I plagiarize?

First offense:

Assignment receives a zero
Parents and dean are notified

Subsequent offenses:

Assignment receives a zero
Parents and dean are notified
Further disciplinary action may be taken

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Parenthetical Citation

Along with a list of works cited at the end of your research project to acknowledge your sources, you MUST indicate to your readers within your text:
What you derived from each source
Exactly where in the work you found the material

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Parenthetical Citation

Medieval Europe was a place both of, “raids, pillages, slavery,

and extortion” and of “traveling merchants, monetary exchange,

towns if not cities, and active markets in grain” (Townsend 10).

The parenthetical “(Townsend 10)” indicates that the quotations come from page 10 of a work by Townsend.
Given the author’s last name, your readers can find complete publication information for the source in the alphabetically arranged list of works cited that follows the text of your paper.

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Parenthetical Citation

Required information:

References in the text must clearly point to specific sources in the list of works cited.
Identify the location of the borrowed information as specifically as possible (give relevant page number or numbers).

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Works Cited

What is it?

A comprehensive list of sources used in your research project

Where does it go?

At the end of your research project (last page)

What is the format (MLA)?

Title: Works Cited
All Margins: 1”
Header: Same as the rest of the project—page number(s)
Entries must be placed in alphabetical order
Double spaced
Hanging indent

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Works Cited vs Work Cited…?

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Works Cited Examples

Books with a single author:

Author’s name. Title of the book. Publication information.

Example:

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. New York: Scholastic Press, 2000.

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Works Cited

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: The Modern Language Association, 2003.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. New York: Scholastic Press, 2000.

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Smith 1

Joseph Smith

Ms. Weiss

Honors English 10

1 Mar. 2007

Title of Paper

Your entire paper should be double-spaced. No additional spacing is necessary. Be sure that each page has a header with

your last name and consecutive page numbers. The first page will also include a heading as demonstrated above.