Cheating and Plagiarism Definitions and Policy

1. Cheating and Plagiarism Definitions and Policy Adapted from Oak Ridge High School

2. https://www.wku.edu/handbook/academic-dishonesty.php

3. IT IS Cheating to: • Copy homework • Give homework to “see” or copy • Copy from another’s test/quiz • Allow someone to “see” or copy from your test/quiz http://www.spinedu.com/curb-cheating-on-writing-assignments/ http://www.topics-mag.com/edition13/cheating-idioms.htm

4. IT IS Cheating to: • Text/photo a test or quiz to anyone • Receive such information • Steal a test • Study from a stolen test http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/04/how-to-stop-cheating-in-college/479037/

5. IT IS Cheating to: • Tell someone in a later class what’s on a test/quiz • Use or possess cheat sheets/crib notes • “Check an answer” on someone else’s paper • Take home work that was for in-class only http://www.freeprintablecoloringpages.net /thumbs/School/Boy_Cheating_On_Test.png

6. Ways kids cheat, but don’t think they are cheating. • Copying and pasting from sites like Spark Notes or any other “helper” sights and then just replacing key words with synonyms, changing sentence structure, or just taking out bits of information, but leaving the jist there. Common Academic Cites • www.123helpme.com • www.gradesaver.com • www.yahoo!answers.com (Taken from a Google search for “common academic cheating sites”)

7. • http://library.trinitycollege.edu/c.php?g=465561&p=3205776

8. Plagiarism • When you write a paper, you must give credit to the person from whom you got your information. • “Plagiarism--failing to acknowledge our debts to others--is using others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.” Information from: http://www.aug.edu/sociology/plagiarism.html

9. IT IS Plagiarism to: • Copy someone else’s paper or project • Copy a paper off the Internet (or any other source) • Copy any part of a paper that you did not write (without citing your source) • Paraphrase any part of a paper or part of a paper that you did not write (without citing your source)

10. IT IS Plagiarism to: • Pay someone to write a paper for you, whether a friend or the Internet • Put your name on someone else’s work (for free or for money) • Turn the same project/paper into more than one teacher • Work together and turn in the exact same project/paper (unless instructed to work in pairs/groups)

11. IT IS Plagiarism to: • Cite information, if used too much or too often without ideas of one’s own is also plagiarism. • The majority of the work has to belong to the student. • The evidence is ONLY for SUPPORT, not the argument or the assignment itself.

12. 8 Top Sites for 8 Top Sites for Plagiarism Plagiarism Here are the most popular websites for would-be cheaters: • Wikipedia Encylopedia • Yahoo! Answers Social & content sharing site • Answers.com Social & content sharing site • Slideshare Social and content sharing site • OPPapers.com Cheat site & paper mill • Scribd Social & content sharing site • Course Hero Homework & academic site • MedLibrary.org Homework & academic site (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/8-top-websites-that-students-use-to-cheat/)

13. If you didn’t write it, it’s plagiarism! http://www.globalpov.com/images/plagiarism.jpg

14. Punishments for Cheating or Plagiarism

15. Polk County Schools Code of Conduct- Definition of Cheating CHEATING- Section 4.02 • In addition to the academic ramifications for cheating, a student who participates in using, copying, or providing another student with any test, test answers or answer keys or another person's work representing it to be his or her own work, is guilty of unacceptable conduct punishable as follows: http://www.polk-fl.net/parents/formsanddocuments/documents/codeofconduct/1617COC.pdf

16. Polk County Schools Code of Conduct- Consequences CHEATING- Section 4.02 Levels: 1. Parental Assistance 2. Office Intervention 3. Detention or Work Detail Programs 4. In-School Suspension 5. Out-of-School or Bus Suspension – Short-Term 6. Out-of-School or Bus Suspension - Long Term 7. Alternative Education Programs 8. Expulsion from School http://www.polk-fl.net/parents/formsanddocuments/documents/codeofconduct/1617COC.pdf

17. Summerlin Academy Cheating Policy • 1stOffense – Parent Contact • 2ndOffense - Saturday Work Detail • 3rdOffense – Saturday Work Detail and 2 hour Cheating Intervention Program • 4thOffense – Out-of-Schools Suspension and Honor Council Referral for further disciplinary action • 5thOffense – Dismissal from Summerlin Academy A Discipline Referral will be written for each incident for documentation

18. Summerlin Academy Cheating Policy • Any Cadet involved with cheating, whether active or complacent, will be penalized with a grade of “0” for the assignment(s) in question. • Depending on the assignment, teacher may deny class credit until the assignment is completed to the teacher’s specifications.

19. Penalties At the University Level • Disciplinary probation. • Withholding of grades, official transcript, and/or degree. • Suspension participation in athletic or extracurricular activities. • Failing grade for an examination or assignment or for a course • Denial of degree. • Suspension from the institution for a specified period of time. • Expulsion (permanent separation from the institution). • Revocation of degree and withdrawal of diploma. http://www.utsystem.edu/bor/rules/50000Series/50101%202004%2012%2010%2001.pdf

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