1. What is Academic Honesty?
(And why you should care!)

2. Academic Honesty Doing your own work
Taking pride in the work you turn in
Citing source material in your papers
Doing your own homework
Writing all your papers in your own words

3. What is academic dishonesty?
Plagiarism
Cheating (copying homework, cheating on tests etc.)
Taking pictures of test material
Copying and pasting from the internet and passing it off as your own
Not citing research

4. Definition:
Plagiarism is the act of presenting the words, ideas, images, sounds, or the creative expression of others as your own.

5. Students. If: You have probably plagiarized!
you have copied, included, downloaded, the words and ideas of others in your work that you neglected to cite,
you have had help you wouldn’t want your teacher to know about,

6. Two types of plagiarism:
Intentional
Copying a friend’s work
Buying or borrowing papers
Cutting and pasting blocks of text from electronic sources without documenting
Media “borrowing” without documentation
Web publishing without permissions of creators
Unintentional
Careless paraphrasing
Poor documentation
Quoting excessively
Failure to use your own “voice”

7. (Job, big game, too much homework!)
Excuses
Everyone does it!
No one gets caught!
It’s okay if
I don’t get caught!
I was too busy to
write that paper!
(Job, big game, too much homework!)
This assignment
was BORING!
I don’t know
the material
My teachers
expect
too much!
What do you think of these excuses? Are they valid?
My parents
expect “A”s!

8. Rationale for academic integrity (as if it were necessary!)
Is your academic
reputation valuable
to you?
When you copy you cheat yourself. You limit your own learning.
The consequences are not worth the risks!
It is only right to give credit to authors whose ideas you use
Citing gives authority to the information you present
Citing makes it possible for your readers to locate your source
Education is not an “us vs. them” game! It’s about learning to learn!
Cheating is unethical behavior
How would you assess the level of “academic integrity” at our school? Do you believe our students understand and take these rationale seriously?

9. Possible school consequences:
First Offense:
Teacher notifies parent
Student fails assignment
Referral to Academic Board
Second Offense:
OCS for 1 day
Zero on assignment
Third Offense
In addition to the consequences outlined in “First Offense” the following may occur:
Referral to administrator for suspension (2-3 days) with parent conference
Is it worth
the risk?
What do you think? Is plagiarism worth the risk?

10. No need to document when:
You are discussing your own experiences, observations, or reactions
Compiling the results of original research, from science experiments, etc.

11. original ideas without few words, I’m okay, right?
What’s the big deal?
Wrong! Paraphrasing
original ideas without
documenting
your source
is plagiarism too!
If I change a
few words, I’m okay, right?

12. You can “borrow” from the works of others in your own work, as long as you give it credit!

13. Remember: Your teacher knows your work
Your teachers discuss student work with each other
Your teacher checks suspicious work against search engines and other student papers
We expect honesty from our students because PRIDE MATTERS!