Academic Integrity, Cheating & Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism 101

Plagiarism = Any time you pass off words/ideas that you did not ideate yourself as your own ❌

Plagiarism is an academic offense 

WHS Plagiarism Policy

WHS Academic Integrity Standards

Assignment Reminder:

REMINDER that ANY use of ANY outside source including AI technologies (even if you change ANY number of words) MUST INCLUDE a source citation. Failure to give credit to works consulted/quoted/paraphrased is plagiarism. Plagiarism/cheating policy is stated on page 17 of the WHS Student handbook.

What is Plagiarism?

Copy and pasting ideas you found online and not citing them - THIS INCLUDES USING CHAT GPT

Changing words around from something you found online and not citing them

Using students’ work or ideas that you did not write or ideate and not citing them

Using AI to generate ideas that you then change words around and not citing AI

Turning in work that a parent, a friend, a tutor, anyone else you know other than you as your own work

What happens when you plagiarize? 

• Any of these actions will result in a zero, a comment in Genesis, and communication to your guardian, assistant principal and school counselor.

  • Using ChatGPT or other AI text-generating software to write content or generate ideas without citing and without asking if it’s OK first,

  • Sharing homework/ Dividing the work between peers 

  • looking up plot summaries instead of reading, 

  • copy-pasting, 

  • copy-pasting and then changing a few words/rewording, 

  • using anything you read/saw in an outside source without citing

  • Getting more-than-fair help from a peer, parent, tutor, or computer application etc. 

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• A teacher is NOT REQUIRED to let any student resubmit work that has been plagiarized

Please be aware that WHS uses Google Classroom which has a built-in Plagiarism Checker that cross references the internet, previously submitted student work, any other resource materials.

Plagiarism Checker

Changing words around from another source does not mean it is your original idea, therefore, it is plagiarism

Plagiarism Checker 

In this example, the student used a website to help with idea generation but did not cite the source used. 

This is plagiarism.

If you are not citing sources you used even for help with idea generation, you are plagiarizing. 

In this instance, the student lost credit despite the student changing around words. This passage was still written by another source and the student did not cite it; therefore, they plagiarized.