ACADEMIC HONOR CODE

Students at Twinfield Union School are expected to behave honorably in all their academic undertakings.  Cheating in any form is unacceptable.  Cheating means deliberately obtaining any unfair advantage, or assisting others in obtaining any unfair advantage in the completion of any graded school work.

Work which involves cheating of any kind will receive a grade of zero, and there may be additional consequences.  A zero given for dishonesty cannot be made up.

Plagiarism, which is a form of cheating, means appropriating material from any source, including but not limited to books, periodicals, web sites, radio, television, and motion picture productions, and unpublished papers including those of classmates, and then submitting that material without attribution as if it were your own work.

Copying a sentence out of a book is plagiarism.  Copying a sentence and then changing a few words is plagiarism.  Inverting a sentence, changing a lot of words around, and thoroughly disguising it is plagiarism.

What is not plagiarism is reading several explanations of your subject, and then, without any direct consultation of any text, writing your understanding of it in your own words.  The biggest temptation to plagiarize occurs when you want to include something you do not understand clearly.  In that situation, ask your teacher for help.

Revised 5/29/02