• Academic Honor Code

• Plagiarism

• Academic Fair Use

ACADEMIC HONOR CODE [top of page]

Any academic institution lacking integrity and honor will never be accepted in the academic world. Our reputation as a school rests on our commitment to uphold the principles of our Honor Code.

The following violations constitute cheating and will not be permitted:

• Collaborating on an assignment that is designated to be completed
• individually.
• Submitting another’s work as your own, regardless of whether it is
• modified from its original form.
• Allowing another student to submit your work as his or her own.
• Plagiarism, the failure to identify quoted words or to cite appropriate
• sources in your work.

As students at Cary Academy, we will strive for academic honesty in all endeavors and pledge to abide by his Honor Code.

PLAGIARISM [top of page]

Plagiarism is the use of material or ideas of another as one’s own. It may occur in any academic discipline, or in artistic endeavors. Whenever a person copies someone else’s material or ideas without giving proper credit to the source, that person plagiarizes. Unless specifically authorized by the instructor, relying on the work of others in such activities as homework exercises, tests, or essays is considered to be plagiarism. Most commonly, plagiarism occurs with written material—a student uses the ideas or work of another person in a writing assignment and fails to cite the source. To use the ideas or work of another (as a student often must do) and at the same time avoid plagiarism, the original author must be credited for the concepts that are presented. Proper credit requires all of the following:

1. Putting the text into quotation marks (or indenting, if it is a longer passage).
2. Citing the source of the passage in a footnote or parenthetical reference.
3. Putting the full citation on a works cited page that credits the original author.
   • Whenever you quote the language or data of another, put the information in quotation marks and identify your source in an appropriate citation in the text or in a footnote.
   • Whenever you paraphrase someone’s work, you should indicate that you have done so by use of an appropriate citation.
   • Whenever you use the ideas of another (even if you do not quote or paraphrase), you should also indicate your source by mentioning the source in your text or by a citation. Facts that are relatively common-place need not be acknowledged.
   • Homework is subject to the normal expectations regarding academic honesty and plagiarism.
   • See the Cary Academy web page on citations for detailed guidelines on citing a passage.

If you, as a Cary Academy student, have concerns or questions about academic plagiarism, you are encouraged to discuss these concerns with a teacher or your advisor. Credit will not be given for work that is plagiarized or knowingly permitted to be copied. Other penalties may be imposed, up to and including suspension or dismissal from school.

ACADEMIC FAIR USE [top of page]

Using portions of lawfully copyrighted works in academic settings, including multimedia projects, is allowed and lawful as long as they are documented with proper credit and citations. You may retain this material within your personal portfolios (online or printed) as examples of your academic work. If the work is a computer media project, you must include on the opening screen a note stating that it has been prepared under the “fair use” exemption of the U.S. Copyright law. You need not write to obtain permission for use of copyrighted work if your presentation falls within specific multimedia fair use guidelines. These fair use rules do not apply the moment a work is disseminated outside of the classroom, as on an external web page.

If you posted copyrighted material on Cary Academy’s World Wide Web connection, which constitutes a broader dissemination of the material (whether or not it is meant to be a commercial product) you must either obtain permissions for all copyrighted portions or eliminate those for which you do not have permission.