It is expected that ALL academic work submitted by Newman students will be an honest representation of their OWN knowledge and effort.
Please note the following information specifically related to CHEATING and PLAGIARISM:
CHEATING is using, borrowing, copying, consulting or collaborating with someone or something (books, computers, etc.) without explicit permission from the teacher. Submitting the same work to more than one teacher without their knowledge, or submitting any part or all of another person’s current or previous work as your own, with or without their knowledge, is dishonest and will result in disciplinary action. Any person lending work to another student is also responsible for participation in a dishonest act and is subject to the same disciplinary action.
PLAGIARISM is using or borrowing information from textbooks, reference material, the Internet, computer disks, movies, newspapers, magazines, journal articles, lectures, etc. without properly acknowledging the source. Simply stated, the rule is: if it is NOT common knowledge (i.e. George Washington was the first President of the United States) or is NOT your firsthand experience, the source MUST be cited by author, title and page, or other explicit details.
The following are examples of when work MUST be cited:
- when quoting directly from a source,
- when paraphrasing, (many students think that if they change the wording of a source their work does not have to be cited – this is NOT true; it MUST be acknowledged and cited)
- when using an organizational pattern that is clearly someone else’s, EVEN when you are stating common knowledge,
- when using any idea or information that is not commonly known