XIII. Plagiarism and Senior Capstone
Students are responsible for ethically using and acknowledging the ideas and work of others throughout their coursework. The student’s individual voice should be clearly evident and the ideas of others must be acknowledged, attributed and/or cited.
Taking another person’s ideas, work, or writings—whether it is from a classmate (former or current), a scholar, another author, and/or an online source--and presenting them as your own without proper referencing is considered plagiarism that falls into three major categories:
Plagiarism and cheating are not tolerated in Senior Capstone under any circumstances whatsoever.
A student who fails to acknowledge the source or author of any and all information or evidence taken from the work of some else through citation, attribution or reference in the body of the work (e.g.—footnotes/endnotes), or through a bibliographic entry, will receive an automatic zero (0) on the project.
A student who incorporates falsified or fabricated information (e.g.—evidence, data, sources, and/or authors) will receive an automatic zero (0) on the project.
All students should be aware that Turnitin will be used on all submissions.
No submission of work is to be made as a PDF unless first approved by both Capstone teachers.
In short, all instances of plagiarism or cheating will result in a zero on the assignment and an F in conduct and may result in an F for the term or the year.
Teachers are required to report all instances of plagiarism to the school’s administration. As a result, in addition to academic consequences students found guilty of plagiarism may face disciplinary consequences as well.
Both plagiarism and cheating are considered major infractions of the School’s Honor Code. See the School’s Agenda book for further details.
Students are responsible for ethically using and acknowledging the ideas and work of others throughout their coursework. The student’s individual voice should be clearly evident and the ideas of others must be acknowledged, attributed and/or cited.
Taking another person’s ideas, work, or writings—whether it is from a classmate (former or current), a scholar, another author, and/or an online source--and presenting them as your own without proper referencing is considered plagiarism that falls into three major categories:
- Verbatim plagiarism: using a source’s language without quoting
- Paraphrasing without citation: using information from a source without attribution
- Inadequate paraphrasing: using ideas from a source in a form that stays too close to the original
Plagiarism and cheating are not tolerated in Senior Capstone under any circumstances whatsoever.
A student who fails to acknowledge the source or author of any and all information or evidence taken from the work of some else through citation, attribution or reference in the body of the work (e.g.—footnotes/endnotes), or through a bibliographic entry, will receive an automatic zero (0) on the project.
A student who incorporates falsified or fabricated information (e.g.—evidence, data, sources, and/or authors) will receive an automatic zero (0) on the project.
All students should be aware that Turnitin will be used on all submissions.
No submission of work is to be made as a PDF unless first approved by both Capstone teachers.
In short, all instances of plagiarism or cheating will result in a zero on the assignment and an F in conduct and may result in an F for the term or the year.
Teachers are required to report all instances of plagiarism to the school’s administration. As a result, in addition to academic consequences students found guilty of plagiarism may face disciplinary consequences as well.
Both plagiarism and cheating are considered major infractions of the School’s Honor Code. See the School’s Agenda book for further details.