Your teachers assign work to help you learn, and completing this work with integrity ensures that you learn the necessary skills and content. We learn by challenging ourselves and persevering when tasks get difficult. It is also important to learn how to find legitimate resources when we do need help with an assignment. If you're stuck, asking your teacher is a great place to start.
You are responsible for understanding and avoiding the following types of academic dishonesty.
Using unauthorized notes
Looking at a classmate’s quiz
Telling a later class about a quiz
Copying from a website, article, or other source
Using ideas from any source without accurately citing it
Using an online source to find quotes
Reading summary notes instead of doing assigned reading
Not putting quotation marks around a direct quote
Copying a classmate’s work
Sharing your work with a classmate
Working together on independent assignments
Allowing someone else to edit your work directly
Submitting the same assignment multiple times or in multiple classes
A common cause of academic dishonesty is stress over not having work completed. Give yourself enough time to complete your work.
Students sometimes turn to academic dishonesty when they don’t know how to complete the work on their own. Instead, ask your teacher for clarification or suggestions.
Attach a citation to any information you take from an outside source. When you take words directly from a source, put them in quotation marks as well as citing them. Accidental plagiarism is often a result of poor note-taking.
Accidental plagiarism is still plagiarism. You are responsible for the integrity of your work. Ask your teacher if you aren’t sure whether something is acceptable.
For examples of various types of plagiarism, see The Plagiarism Spectrum from Turnitin.com.