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Policy
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The advent of the Internet has given rise to
an ever-increasing use of "cut and paste plagiarism"
in all levels of academics. Any level of plagiarism in an educational
institution cannot be tolerated. Falls Church High School English
Department has a zero tolerance policy.
What is Plagiarism?
"Plagiarism is a difficult concept to
define. It includes a range of actions from failure to use proper
citation to wholesale cheating. A student who plagiarizes may
do so unintentionally or with malicious deliberation. In 'Helping
Students Avoid Plagiarism' Stephen Wilhoit lists the following
types of plagiarism:
- Buying a paper from a research service or term
paper mill.
- Turning in another student's work without that
student's knowledge.
- Turning in a paper a peer has written for the
student.
- Copying a paper from a source text without proper
acknowledgment / citation.
- Copying materials from a source text, supplying
proper documentation, but leaving out quotation marks.
- Paraphrasing materials from a source text without
appropriate documentation."
Student Consequences
Plagiarism will not be tolerated as it undermines
the integrity of the academic community. Therefore, Falls Church
High School English Department has adopted the following consequences
for those students who plagiarize:
- A mandatory zero will be given for the assignment/exam.
- Mandatory Saturday School
- Possible out-of-school suspension
- A possible 'F' for the quarter in which the incident
occurs
- A possibility of receiving NO AP credit for the
course.
Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting
and Tracking Online Plagiarism., Lisa Hinchliffe. janicke@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu,
May 1998
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