Plagiarism & Citations

AP Capstone Policy on Plagiarism and Falsification or Fabrication of Information

A student who fails to acknowledge the source or author of any and all information or

evidence taken from the work of someone else through citation, attribution or reference

in the body of the work, or through a bibliographic entry, will receive a score of 0 on

that particular component of the AP Seminar and/or AP Research Performance Task.

In AP Seminar, a team of students that fails to properly acknowledge sources or authors

on the Team Multimedia Presentation will receive a group score of 0 for that component

of the Team Project and Presentation.

A student who incorporates falsified or fabricated information (e.g. evidence, data,

sources, and/or authors) will receive a score of 0 on that particular component of the

AP Seminar and/or AP Research Performance Task. In AP Seminar, a team of students

that incorporates falsified or fabricated information in the Team Multimedia Presentation

will receive a group score of 0 for that component of the Team Project and Presentation.

Additional short videos to help you research and cite better can be found here.