Plagiarism is using the writings or ideas of another as one’s own. If another person’s words, phrases, ideas, opinions, designs, or facts are used, credit must be given. Failing to do so is actually a form of stealing. Outside of school, stealing is commonly known as a crime. If someone is caught stealing anything from a pack of gum to a car, he/she will be arrested. Within a school, someone who is caught stealing someone else’s ideas can receive an "F" on the assignment or be kicked out of the classed. Plagiarism, a form of cheating, is not seen as a serious offense by many teenagers. However, imagine writing a poem, a story, a song, a computer program or a game and someone else takes it and claims it as their own. They have stolen your ideas, your hard work. How would that feel? Hopefully you would want proper credit for your ideas just like anyone else.
| KHS Policy on Cheating | At KHS, students will do their own work at all times. Giving or receiving work or plagiarism is all considered cheating. First offense consequence: ‘F’ grade on assignment, suspension to R/C for class block. Second offense consequence: Potential failure of course for the quarter,home suspension, parent conference and possible referral to Alternative Education Committee (AEC). If you would like to see the actual student handbook online, click on the following link: KHS Student Handbook |
To avoid plagiarism, apply the following rules to your writing:
1. Using someone else’s exact words requires quotation marks and parenthetical citation.
2. Paraphrasing or summarizing someone else’s words or ideas (opinions, arguments, facts, details, statistics, graphs) into your own words requires parenthetical citation.
3. Commonly known facts do not require any quotations marks or citation even if you read it during your research (i.e. the capital of California is Sacramento).
4. Lastly, if you question whether a piece of information in your writing needs to be cited, it probably does so do it.
Refer to the examples on the Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing page if needed.
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