Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is the concept used to describe the many facets of authenticity within a student's work. A student who upholds a high standard of academic integrity will produce or create work which is authentic and true to the knowledge and learning which he or she has acquired.

Academic Integrity means that:

• A student's work on each assignment will be completely their own
• A student will not practice plagiarism in any form
• A student will not allow others to copy their work
• A student will not misuse content from the Internet

What Is Plagiarism?

    Plagiarism is copying or using ideas or words from another person, an online classmate, or an Internet or print source and presenting them as your own.

Some examples of plagiarism include:

• Buying a paper from a research service or term paper mill.
• Copying a paper from a source text without proper acknowledgment.
• Copying materials from a source text, supplying proper documentation, but leaving out quotation marks.
• Paraphrasing materials from a source text without appropriate documentation.
• With the Internet, another type of plagiarism needs to be listed: "Turning in a paper from a "free term paper" website.

To avoid Plagiarism both intentional and unintentional it is important to properly reference all sources and whenever possible rewrite information in your own words.  If you are going to use a direct quote you must cite the source both in the text as well as in a bibliography. 

For more information see the Open Schools Website or consult an MLA style manual.

If at any time you have a question about how to use a particular reference souce please contct you teacher.