All Honest and Original Work
Honor Code for English II Pre-AP
We will insist on completely honest and original work in this class. Therefore, each student will be required to produce work free from plagiarism or cheating as described below:
Plagiarism:
a. Submitting a paper, examination, or other assignment as one’s own when it was written or created by another
b. Verbatim copying of portions of another’s writing without proper notation and acknowledgment of the source in an accepted scholarly format
c. Paraphrasing or restating someone else’s ideas without proper acknowledgment of such text
d. Falsely citing a source or attributing work to a source from which the referenced material was not obtained
e. Fabricating or altering data
f. Taking another student’s ideas or sentences and manipulating the syntax
Cheating:
a. Giving/receiving/using unauthorized aid (from printed/online sources or individuals) on in-class or take home examinations.
b. Giving/receiving/using unauthorized aid (from printed/online sources or individuals) on class work, in the preparation of reports, or in any other work that is to be used by the teacher as the basis of grading. If approved by the teacher, group study/peer collaboration may be acceptable.
Penalties for incidences of plagiarism or cheating will include:
1. A grade of zero for the assignment.
2. Parent(s) or guardian(s) will be contacted.
3. Proper disciplinary procedures as established by the Anderson High School Handbook will be followed.
English II Pre-AP classes use turnitin.com as a resource to check for plagiarism. Turnitin.com “ensures original work by checking submitted papers against 20+ billion web pages, 220+ million student papers and leading library databases and publications” (turnitin). If a paper is not submitted to this site, it will not be graded.
I have read the All Honest and Original Work Honor Code and agree to abide by its requirements.
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