Academic

Honesty
What are my own words and ideas?
Grade 8

The Fundamentals of Academic

Honesty

STrust
SFairness
SRespect

All part of our

Middle School 3
Cs Culture of
CARING,
COMMUNITY &
CULTURE!

SResponsibility

What is plagiarism?
S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1LCYoH3GwQ

Plagiarism
How do you know
when it goes from being
inspired to plagiarism?

Now time for a QUIZ!

S Open your Socrative app.

S Enter Socrative Room

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Definition of Plagiarism
(from Middle School
handbook)
S Plagiarism is using the ideas or words of

others without clearly acknowledging or

crediting the source of the information.
S Many regard plagiarism as theft and there

are copyright laws against it.

S You need to be careful that you dont

plagiarise without even realising you are

doing so.

What are consequences of

Middle School students caught
plagiarising?
S Students may have their grade lowered.

S Be required to re-write the assignment in

detention and/or receive zero for the

assignment.
S The students parents will be informed and a

parent, teacher, principal conference may

occur. Further offences will be reviewed more
seriously.

So how can I be more

academically honest?
Do some background reading first to learn what is
considered general knowledge about your subject.
Have specific research questions to answer. Take notes
separately for each research question.
Take notes from multiple sources.

NEVER simply copy and paste notes from a digital source

into a paper or even notes. Either take notes by hand, or
type them in an adjacent window.
ALWAYS keep detailed information for a
bibliography and LEARN how to make citations!

Plagiarism in the news!

Shttp://video.foxnews.com/v/

1489522894001/computerprogram-helps-collegesfight-plagiarism/#sp=showclips

Academic Honesty Initiatives

coming to Middle School
S Note-taking workshops
S Easy Bib
S Turnitin.com

MS Library website
S http://acsmslibrary.weebly.com/

Research Quality & Citation

Rubric
Works Cited & Research Quality Rubric
1. Does not meet

2. Barely meets

Citation Format

None or little of the

necessary information is
present in the citation
(i.e. only gives URL) or
there is none at all.

Has provided a citation

but its not in the right
format (MLA). There
may also be components
of the citation missing,
and punctuation and
capitalization are
irregular.

3. Meets with few

exceptions
Uses the correct format
(MLA) with all of the
essential components,
but there are
inconsistencies in the
order of the parts of the
citation, punctuation and
capitalization.

4. Meets all
requirements
Uses the required MLA
format correctly. All
capitalization and
punctuation are perfect.
The citation elements are
correctly formatted within
the following areas: title,
punctuation,
capitalization, indentation,
and spacing.
The Works Cited list is
alphabetized by authors
last name and is correctly
located at the end of the
assignment.

Final Document

The final Works Cited

List is basic or
completely absent. It is
located in the wrong
part of the assignment.

The Works Cited List

may not be correctly
located within the
assignment and is not
alphabetized.

The final Works Cited

List is located correctly
within the assignment
but may not be
alphabetized.

Quality of Sources
& Jot Note-taking

Students sources are

not authoritative (e.g.,
Wikipedia). They may be
extremely out of date
and biased. Student
cannot provide evidence
of their notes.

Students sources are

generally (but not
completely)
authoritative, current
and unbiased. Notes are
jotted and nearly
complete.

All of the students sources

are credible, current &
unbiased. A reliable search
engine (WebPath Express)
has been used. Jot notes
are complete.

Number/Formats
of Sources

The student shows no

use of library resources
(e.g., relies mainly on
Google for searching).

Students sources are

partially authoritative
(only some are out of
date and/or biased).
Notes may be
incomplete and/or are in
complete sentences not
jot notes.
One to two different
sources of information
are used, but they may
only cover one format
(e.g., website).

Three different sources

are used but they only
cover two different
formats (e.g., print and
website).

Student uses three

different sources in a
variety of formats of
information (e.g., reliable
website, library database
and & print source).

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