BHS Academic Misconduct

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BHS Academic Misconduct
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Are any of these plagiarism?

• Reading someone elses term paper and then
  writing your own using his/her ideas.
• Taking a report or term paper you wrote for one
  class and reusing it for another.
• Not citing your references.
• Copying from the internet and editing it to be
  yours.

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Plagiarism

• Copying the language, structure, and/or ideas of
  another and representing them as ones own work
  is plagiarism.

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• Examples of plagiarism include but are not
  limited to
• Using another persons ideas as your own is
  plagiarism.
• Using the exact words of an original without
  quotation marks, documentation or citation is
  plagiarism.
• Using the exact words of an original without
  quotation marks even if the source is documented
  is plagiarism.
• Note When you put your name on a piece of work,
  your responsibility is simply to distinguish
  between what is yours and what is not, and to
  credit those who have in any way contributed.
  (Academic Writing at WFU)

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• Using sources without giving credit is
  plagiarism this would include, but not be
  limited to friends, parents, on-line essays,
  texts, music and video clips, photos, projects,
  and artwork.
• Taking or borrowing words, even if you change
  many of them is plagiarism changing word
  choice/order to better imitate your writing or to
  avoid detection is also plagiarism.

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Are any of these Cheating?

• Copying someone elses homework
• Asking your friend who took the test 1st period
  what questions were on the test when you have it
  8th period.
• Asking your parent or friend to do all or parts
  of your project

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Cheating

• Cheating is defined as receiving or giving
  unauthorized assistance on academic work for any
  course or subject.
• Examples include but are not limited to
• Copying answers from another students work,
  including homework.
• Allowing someone to copy any academic work,
  including homework.
• Providing or using unauthorized study aids,
  notes, books, data, or other information
• Otherwise acting dishonestly in the process of
  completing course work

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Consequences- Applicable for 4 years at BHS

• 1st Offense
• Zero on the assignment
• Parent notification by teacher
• Name recorded in the Brookfield High School
  Academic Misconduct Record
• Student is not eligible for National Honor
  Society, Peer Counseling, French and/or Spanish
  Honor Societies, Key Club, and/or Student Council
  for 6 months
• Student is not eligible to participate in
  co-curricular activities for 2 weeks

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• 2nd Offense
• All consequences listed above in 1st offense and
• Meeting with parent/administration
  /guidance/teacher
• Withdraw from National Honor Societies, Student
  Council, Key Club, Peer Counseling
• Excluded from receiving academic awards for the
  year in which the offense occurred
• Student is not eligible to participate in
  co-curricular activities for 4 weeks

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• 3rd and Subsequent Offenses
• All consequences listed above in 1st offense and
  2nd offense
• A grade of 50 for the quarter
• Minimum of one day suspension
• Student is not eligible to participate in
  co-curricular activities for 6 weeks

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Responsibilities

• Student Responsibilities
• Abide by the BHS Academic Misconduct Policy
• Help to establish an academic environment where
  all members of the school community view a
  violation of the policy unacceptable