What is Plagiarism?

Academic Integrity at Cairine Wilson S.S.

To promote consistent transferable skills across all subject areas and grade levels, academic material must be properly referenced . Although there are many forms of academic referencing, Cairine Wilson students will learn APA referencing (in-text citations and reference list). For consistency purposes, training for staff and students will be conducted through the Learning Commons by the teacher-librarian. This process will begin with introductory workshops in grade 9 and will be continually reinforced through coursework and more advanced workshops throughout high school.

Teachers will document incidences of academic fraud centrally using a Google Form provided by the administration. Inquiries pertaining to specific students will be facilitated by an administrator.

Academic Integrity: Intentional Academic Fraud/Plagiarism

Cairine Wilson Secondary School places a high value on academic integrity. As such, all students will participate in academic integrity workshops.

Intentional academic fraud and/or plagiarism is the act of deliberately or accidentally presenting someone else’s ideas and efforts as your own. Plagiarism includes the following:

Absent or Fraudulent Credit:

• Failing to provide citations (give credit) for ideas, quotations, images, music etc that are not those of the student

• Cutting and pasting from the internet and print sources

• Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks or indentation for quotes longer than three lines

• Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation / idea

• Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without credit.

Fraudulent Assignments/ Content:

• Majority of words / contents are copied

• Submitting someone else’s work as your own

• Buying papers from the Internet or other students

• Having someone else complete an assignment / test for you, with or without payment

• Resubmitting an assignment that you previously completed for another course

• Falsifying or inventing data, quotations, information

Aids

• Bringing and/or using notes, “cheat sheets”, formulae for a test/exam (unless permitted by the teacher)

• Using calculators and similar tools when not permitted

• Using smartphones to access notes or the Internet during a test/exam or an in-class assignment

• Using technology to text friends, parents, etc. for answers

At Cairine Wilson academic fraud and/or plagiarism is a disciplinary issue and could incur repeated and escalated consequences based on prior knowledge, incidences and grade level:

Grade Responses

Nine

• Parents are notified

• Disciplinary meeting with teacher and VP

Ten/Eleven

• Parents are notified

• Disciplinary meeting with teacher and VP

Twelve

• Parents are notified if student is under age of 18

• Disciplinary meeting with teacher and VP

• Suspension

• Forfeiting recommendations for scholarships

• Forfeiting recommendations for subject and graduation awards

• Staff may not provide reference letters.