Academic integrity & Plagiarism Mr. Eble English

In this Power Point, you will find… …a formal, detailed definition for the terms “cheating” and “plagiarism” … my explicit definition of each … consequences for cheating / plagiarism

What is Cheating? According to Dictionary.com, to “Cheat” means To practice fraud or deceit To violate rules or regulations To take an examination or test in a dishonest way, as by improper access to answers

I would add these specific examples of cheating.. Submitting another student’s assignment as your own. Providing another student with your work so they can submit it as theirs. Using a cell phone, notes, text, or the internet during an assessment. Using another student’s answers during an assessment. Sharing your answers with another student during an assessment. Providing information about an assessment to a student in another section / period of your class.

PLAGIARISM, as defined by the MLA Style Manual, involves… "[u]sing another person's ideas or expressions in your writing without acknowledging the source constitutes plagiarism.... [T]o plagiarize is to give the impression that you wrote or thought something that you in fact borrowed from someone, and to do so is a violation of professional ethics.... Forms of plagiarism include the failure to give appropriate acknowledgment when repeating another's wording or particularly apt phrase, paraphrasing another's argument, and presenting another's line of thinking"

Plagiarism.org includes all of the following as plagiarism: Turning in someone else's work as your own Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

If a student is found guilty of cheating or plagiarism, the consequences are: Loss of trust Zero grade for that assignment (with no possible make-up) Detention Notice to Academic Administrator Possible ban or withdrawal from academic awards Possible parent-administrator-teacher meeting Possible Blue Slip (Code of Conduct Notice)

In class… … we’ll discuss these notes. …review the story of Senator John Walsh, who plagiarized large segments of a paper for graduate school…and suffered the consequences. …review examples of plagiarized material.