ENGLISH DEPARTMENT ACADEMIC CONDUCT POLICY
Students at LHS are expected to conduct themselves with honesty and integrity in their pursuit of academic achievement. As a student at LHS, therefore, you should make sure you understand what constitutes academic dishonesty to avoid accidentally engaging in that practice.
Plagiarism - Plagiarism means more than simply copying and pasting work from the Internet. Consider, for example, the definition offered on the University of Maine’s website: “If you use someone else's ideas, design, graphics, data, or words, even if it is public domain material, without crediting the source, you are representing someone else's material as your own. This is plagiarism.” As you can see, plagiarism means claiming anything, even ideas, from an outside source as your own. Please note that reading outside sources (SparkNotes, CliffsNotes, BookRags, etc.) instead of the assigned text and using the information from those sources in your own work is plagiarism.
Cheating – Cheating is intentionally misrepresenting one’s knowledge and skill level through some means of deception including, but not limited to, copying or allowing another to copy work, using crib notes, or communicating answers on a test.
Fabrication – Fabrication is the invention or falsification of information with the intent to deceive.
Academic Misconduct – Academic misconduct includes tampering with grades or distributing assessment materials to others.
When discovered, academic dishonesty usually results in serious consequences. At any higher educational institution, the consequences may be as serious as dismissal. Such conduct in the professional world results in both personal and legal consequences. LHS does not tolerate plagiarism. If you are caught turning in work that is not produced entirely by your own efforts, you will receive a zero until you make up the assignment, possibly under the supervision of a teacher. Your parents/guardians will be contacted, and any school or extra-curricular policies regarding cheating will be followed.
Plagiarism - Plagiarism means more than simply copying and pasting work from the Internet. Consider, for example, the definition offered on the University of Maine’s website: “If you use someone else's ideas, design, graphics, data, or words, even if it is public domain material, without crediting the source, you are representing someone else's material as your own. This is plagiarism.” As you can see, plagiarism means claiming anything, even ideas, from an outside source as your own. Please note that reading outside sources (SparkNotes, CliffsNotes, BookRags, etc.) instead of the assigned text and using the information from those sources in your own work is plagiarism.
Cheating – Cheating is intentionally misrepresenting one’s knowledge and skill level through some means of deception including, but not limited to, copying or allowing another to copy work, using crib notes, or communicating answers on a test.
Fabrication – Fabrication is the invention or falsification of information with the intent to deceive.
Academic Misconduct – Academic misconduct includes tampering with grades or distributing assessment materials to others.
When discovered, academic dishonesty usually results in serious consequences. At any higher educational institution, the consequences may be as serious as dismissal. Such conduct in the professional world results in both personal and legal consequences. LHS does not tolerate plagiarism. If you are caught turning in work that is not produced entirely by your own efforts, you will receive a zero until you make up the assignment, possibly under the supervision of a teacher. Your parents/guardians will be contacted, and any school or extra-curricular policies regarding cheating will be followed.
