Ramifications for cheating in ANY class at PPCHS:• For first offense:

• A zero on the assignment• Parent contact• Referral to administration

• For second offense (in ANY class throughout the year):• A zero on the assignment• Parent contact• Referral to administration• A Saturday detention

• For third offense:• A zero on the assignment• Parent contact• Referral to administration• 1-2 day suspension

• For fourth offense:• A zero on the assignment• Parent contact• Referral to administration• 3-5 day suspension

In addition…•Even one offense will affect your standing with The National Honor Society, resulting in removal for members, and ineligibility for potential members.

•Your record stays with you! Be careful not to tarnish your reputation.

Cheating includes:• Copying any portion of another test or

assignment• Sharing any portion of a hard copy of a test or

assignment• Taking a picture of any portion of a test or

assignment• Using a phone or other electronic device during

a test or to do any portion of an assignment without permission from the teacher

• Discussing the content of a test or assignment in any way (in person or via phone, email, text, or any social networking site)

• Using another source’s words or ideas without giving credit to that source

PLAGIARISM:PLAGIARISM:The use of someone else’s words OR IDEAS as if they are one’s own.If you use ANY information without giving the real source the credit (even when putting into your own words), then you are plagiarizing.

• Question:Is it acceptable to use online/book/periodical research to “enhance” understanding while reading a text?

• Answer:NOT without teacher approval!Our goal is to help you to become more insightful readers and critical thinkers. If you use “Cliff’s Notes” or online sources that “spell out” the works and their secrets, then you aren’t exercising your brain. Do the thinking yourself and come to the table with your own ideas about a work.

• Question:What about using outside sources when writing a paper or doing a project?

• Answer:It depends on the purpose of the assignment. Make sure that you know what your teacher wants. If you are asked to give your own interpretation of a work, then your own brain is sufficient. If you are asked to use outside research and/or criticism to support an argument or gather background information on a particular topic, then do so, but be careful! Make sure not to…

An act of plagiarism,

whether intentional or not, is an act of stealing, and is taken

very seriously in

the academic world.

1.Quote and cite your source,

OR2. Paraphrase and cite your

source

If you use words or ideas from another source, you

must either:

When using exact words, you must quote the material and then, in parentheses, let your reader know where to find it:

• [Using author’s name in text]

Marshall Bruce Gentry believes that “gender ambiguity

seems to allow males to achieve redemption more easily

than females in O’Connor” (66).

• [Using author’s name in citation only]

Upon close inspection, “gender ambiguity seems to allow

males to achieve redemption more easily than females in

O’Connor” (Gentry 66).

To what does the “citation,” or the information in parentheses at the end of the quote, refer?What, on the previous page, does (Gentry 66) actually mean? Gentry, Marshall Bruce. “Gender Dialogue in O’Connor.”

Flannery O’Connor New Perspectives. Ed. Sura P. Rath and

Mary Neff Shaw. Athens: University of Georgia Press,

1996. 56-72.

Using the word “Gentry” as her cue, the reader of the essay can easily obtain all of the information she needs to locate the source. Full documentation of all sources cited within the paper can be found at the end of the paper (listed alphabetically) on the list of Works Cited.

When quoting more than four lines:

A block quote seems simple when given a clear example of what it should look like:

A quotation that occupies more than four typed

lines should be indented one inch (or ten

spaces) from the left margin. It should be

double-spaced, without quotation marks at the

beginning and end of the quoted material…. Its

parenthetical citation should be placed after

the block’s last item of punctuation. (“Source”

16)

Return to the left margin to discuss the quote within the

same paragraph.

Even if you are paraphrasing, or putting into your own words information that you found from another source, you still must cite your source:

One can argue that O’Connor’s female

characters have greater difficulties than

her male characters in fully redeeming

themselves (Gentry 66).

MLA• Consult the MLA Handbook or

other reference books such as Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference for detailed instruction on rules regarding proper format, citation, and documentation.

• When writing about literature, always use proper MLA style documentation. Please note that other fields may have other formatting requirements (APA, etc.)

“Now I’m scared. Doesn’t EVERYTHING originally come from somewhere

else?”

Larson, Gary. The Far Side Gallery 3. Ed. Andrews and McMeel. Kansas City, 1988. www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONA18.htm

Duchamp, Marcel. Postcard of replica of L.U.O.O.Q. (1919) The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1990. www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONA11.htm

Storey, Mary Rose. “Mona Lisa Laugh Sequence.” Mona Lisas. 1980. Cover 4. www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONA07.htm

Advertisement for Gateway Computers from PC Magazine. Vol 17, no. 11. June 9, 1998. www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONA 17.htm

Things you DON’T have to document include:

•Examples of parody, etc.•Your own thoughts, conclusions, or experiences

•Common knowledge•Areas of public domain, like fairy tales, etc.

There is much gray area,

however, so when in doubt,

cite, and…

USE TURNITIN.COM• To demonstrate originality and, when applicable, the use of proper citation and documentation, students will be expected to register with turnitin.com.

• Each student MUST register using his/her SCHOOL GMAIL ACCOUNT

• Please see your English teacher for instructions on how to do so.

• You will use only one account for all classes.