Plagiarism occurs when the student submitting the paper for a course does one or more of the following:

• Does not properly attribute words or ideas to a source;
  • Quotes from another author's writing without citing that author's work. This, of course, includes failing to cite material you take from the World Wide Web, as well as copying material from library books or your peers' papers;
  • Cites, with quotation marks, portions of another author's work, but uses more of that work without quotation marks and without attribution.
• Takes a paper, in whole or in part, from a site on the Web or a "library" of already-written papers;
  • Steals, borrows, buys, or copies a paper from another student and then submits that paper as the student's own work. The student who supplies the paper has also committed plagiarism.
• Submits the same paper twice for two different assignments and/or in two different classes, unless both teachers have given written permission;
  • Takes the results of another's research and attempts to pass those results off as his or her own work.

If you are caught plagiarizing, the Department's usual procedure is as follows:

• You will fail the assignment;
  
• Your parents will be contacted and informed of your plagiarism;
  
• A written disciplinary referral will be placed in your KHS student file;
  
• Two occurrences in the same class will result in additional consequences.
  
• Please understand that, in the intellectual community of Kodiak High School, plagiarism is a form of stealing: there are few more serious breaches of intellectual community.
  

Having stated our standards and consequences, we assert that plagiarism is certainly the exception rather than the norm in our community. We simply want to emphasize in this document precisely what plagiarism is and to emphasize as well that it is a very serous violation of our community.

This policy is adapted from a memo to undergraduates written by John Kucich, Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Michigan Department of Language and Literature.