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¡¡¡IMPORTANT!!! PLAGIARISM AND THE INTERNET

While I encourage you to work together in collaboration and discussion in and out of class, it is imperative that you turn in original work. Everything that you write must be in your own words. Assignments turned in with identical or highly similar answers will both receive zero credit for the assignment. Information found in books, articles or on the World Wide Web should be summarized and cited appropriately. All students will be held to the following guidelines:
1. · 1st offense – the paper or material in question will be assigned zero points and the principal and your parents will be notified.
2. · 2nd offense – same as 1st offense, plus the student will be put on an administration contract indicating that a third offense will result in a loss of credit in the class.
3. · 3rd offense – loss of credit in the class plus disciplinary action.

In other words, you should never, never, never, ever copy and paste information from the Internet into a discussion post, assignment, test, or paper without clearly indicating what is “quoted” and from where it is taken. You also, always, provide your own interpretation of the quote. Plagiarism in any form is totally unacceptable. Copying text or ideas from Internet Resources, text or any work other than your own and implying it is your own work, even as a first offense, will result in an “F” grade for that assignment and will result in further disciplinary actions.

Examples of plagiarism include borrowing ideas from an online ecyclopedia without providing a link; copying verbatim and interesting a passage from a written work; or asking your parents to correct and edit your without changing their words. Remember that each of has our own written voice, and it is easy to tell when passages are not our own.