Academic Honesty Policy for Brewster Academy
Page 109-110: Brewster Academy Community Handbook and Program of Studies
All students must familiarize themselves with the policies below regarding academic honesty. Students are expected to value honesty in every aspect of school life. Violations of this expectation will lead to major disciplinary action. Academic dishonesty is defined as:
• presenting one's own work material that is someone else's
• presenting one's own work ideas that are someone else's
• presenting work to demonstrate mastery or an understanding that is not the result of one's own effort
In most written work, students can avoid the charge of plagiarism or unauthorized aid by acknowledging sources in one or more of the following ways:
1. Formal Footnoting - check with your class teacher.
2. Formal or informal bibliography - list at the end of the paper any sources you consulted.
3. Internal Citation - giving credit in your text to the original source for a direct quotation or a paraphrase (restating the text in another from in other words)
4. If in doubt, a student should check with the teacher before formal presentation of the assignment this is especially true when a student has questions about work that was done in collaboration with other students.
5. Students are encouraged to consider, when submitting any work, whether the work truly deserves to have only one person-s name attached.
Students who misrepresent their academic work will receive a zero grade for each violation and will be reported to the Academic Office. The appropriate director will recommend to the Dean of Students appropriate major disciplinary action.
Examples of academic dishonesty include:
1. Presenting, as one's own, ideas, sentences, paragraphs, sections of work, computer programs, homework exercises taken in part or full from another source or another person(plagiarism), including through the computer network.
2. Using unauthorized notes or other aids in a test, copying from or being influenced by another student's work during a test.
3. Using unauthorized help, assistance, or aid to another person copying homework or allowing another student to copy answers, term papers, homework questions, or labwork. It is each student's responsibility to ensure that any materials he or she shares with another student are not misused. When two students submit work that is identical, the assumption is that both have been involved in cheating, regardless of which student created the original work. A good guideline to follow is that you should never give your academic work to another student without your teacher's express permission to do so.
4. Using unauthorized help on research papers, take-home tests, lab reports, etc. beyond that specifically authorized by the instructor.
5. Deceptive use of library or other educational material, including technology.