Declaration of Plagiarism and Honesty
Plagiarism is intellectual theft. It means using the work/writing of another person without
proper attribution. Plagiarism results in stealing or passing off the work of another person
as one’s own ideas, words, or work. Credit must be given for every direct quotation, for
paraphrasing or summarizing a work (in whole or part) in one’s own words, for
information which is not common knowledge, or for ideas which are not one’s own.
Also, using a past paper which belongs to an older sibling, friends, etc. will constitute as
plagiarism.
In the final research paper if credit is not given for someone else’s work, the paper will
not earn a grade and the student will receive an “F” for the class which will put the
student’s graduation in jeopardy.
Forgery results in student lying about fieldwork hours completed or in faking signatures.
Any attempt by a student to engage in forgery and dishonesty will invalidate the
fieldwork hours and will result in a student not passing the Fieldwork segment of the
senior project. This will therefore put graduation also in jeopardy.
I fully understand the consequences of plagiarism and forgery with regard to the senior
project and take full responsibility to present a research paper and fieldwork free of either
or the result will jeopardize graduation.
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(Student Signature)
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(Date)
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(Parent Signature)
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(Date)