Academic-Honesty Policy:

        Lake Oswego High School and the LOHS Social Studies Department take matters of academic honesty very seriously. Plagiarizing or copying another’s work is a practice universally condemned in the academic and business world and has led to people being expelled, publicly ridiculed, fired and/or sued. It is not only grossly unethical but also robs an assignment of its educational value.

A student who violates the academic honesty standards will receive a zero on the assignment in question and a disciplinary referral. This will occur not only to the student who copied the material but also to the student who allowed them to copy their work. If someone copied your work without permission, the only way to avoid discipline is to inform the teacher before the assignment has been graded.  

1.   Don’t turn in work that you copied from someone else . This includes:

·        having one student do half the questions while the other student does the other half and then copying each others answers,

·        copying social studies worksheets even if it is just a few answers,

·        either word-per-word copying or the practice of varying the answers slightly but still getting the information from another student,

·        asking another student, “Hey, what’s the answer to #6” and then writing down the answer they give you,

·        Copying Internet or printed materials and then placing the material in an essay or assignment without saying where the information came from,

·        looking over someone’s shoulder to see an answer and then writing it down.

2.        If you have questions about academic honesty you should contact your teacher. Do not rely upon the advice of your friends or family, because they may be unaware of school policy.

   
       But does that mean you can never use another’s work in a paper or project?

No.  But to use someone else’s work you must attribute where you got the information. For example:

In Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone there is the following sentence:

  . . .There is reason to believe that deep-seated technological trends are radically ‘privatizing’ or ‘individualizing’ our use of leisure time and thus disrupting many opportunities for social-capital formation. The most obvious and probably the most powerful instrument of this revolution is television . . .”

  . . . I believe TV is robbing us of our ability to communicate with each other. There is reason to believe that deep-seated technological trends are radically ‘privatizing’ or ‘individualizing’ our use of leisure time and thus disrupting many opportunities for social-capital formation. The most obvious and probably the most powerful instrument of this revolution is television. We need to do something to stop this trend. . .

. . . I believe that technological trends are ‘privatizing’ or ‘individualizing’ our use of leisure time. This means we have fewer opportunities to form social capital. Television is probably the main reason for this

  Robert Putnam believes that there is reason to believe that deep-seated technological trends are radically ‘privatizing’ or ‘individualizing’ our use of leisure time and thus disrupting many opportunities for social-capital formation. The most obvious and probably the most powerful instrument of this revolution is television.

  Robert Putnam, in his book Bowling Alone, comments that “there is reason to believe that deep-seated technological trends are radically ‘privatizing’ or ‘individualizing’ our use of leisure time and thus disrupting many opportunities for social-capital formation. The most obvious and probably the most powerful instrument of this revolution is television.”