<p>I've been convicted of honor code violation at my high school for plagiarism in AP Art History. I've been accepted to several UC's. What will happen and what should I do?</p>
<p>It was an unintentional plagiarism; I've included the source and everything, so it should not be counted as plagiarism. My teacher didn't seem to cooperate with me well. Is it plagiarism to include a detailed description of an art piece and use it to present it to the class with the source link at the end of the mini essay? I didn't use the whole thing either; i've only made a few footnotes at the sides and the essay as just ... nothing else, really. I mean, I'm not claiming it to be my own piece, am I? </p>
<p>And the school just called, saying that I might not even be able to graduate. I think my teacher really put it up, this time. I asked her what sort of consequences I might get and she said, "a couple detentions, maybe." WOW. I can't believe this.. this isn't good. At all. What am I supposed to do now? It'll go on my transcript, and I might have to inform all the colleges I applied to about it. What do I have left to do? I really want to explain everything to the colleges, my school, and my reluctant teacher.</p>
<p>If the text itself was quoted with a corresponding citation, I don’t see how this could be construed as plagiarism. Sounds like a serious overreaction on the part of your teacher.</p>
<p>If what you’re saying is true, I’d try to fight that accusation of plagiarism. If it’s quoted and cited properly, it isn’t plagiarized. Using a cited source as the crux of your argument instead of making an analysis of it isn’t plagiarism either, although it does makes for poor writing.</p>
<p>Get your parents involved. This could get pretty serious.</p>
<p>sighh… I didn’t quote it. But I haven’t claimed it was mine, either; i just included the website that I got it from and jotted a few keynotes on the side, giving a 30-second presentation of some art piece. I’m trying to stay optimistic about this, but i doubt my parents can do anything. =\ am I really screwed?</p>
<p>Even if you didn’t explicitly announce it as your own, that doesn’t guarantee your innocence. The theoretical status quo in a classroom setting is for each student to do their own work, and failure to declare this as quoted material would lead everyone to the natural conclusion that it was your work.</p>
<p>Still, I think that citing the website should have been enough to prevent an honor code issue. You obviously did a bad job of declaring your source, but at worst the teacher should have just given you a zero. Even in real plagiarism cases, preventing graduation sounds extreme.</p>
<p>Check your school handbook for the official policy on plagiarism.</p>
<p>I want to complain and whine about this all night, but I’ll do so after i discuss this with the administration tomorrow… I’ll get back and update this thread. Sigh I hope they really understand. .</p>
<p>It was an honest error on your part, and hopefully they’ll be able to see that. That said, it is plagiarism. However, I’ve seen kids get caught for ripping off entire papers and they were never threatened with expulsion.</p>
<p>fairy_dreams: I just re-educated myself about plagiarism since my common sense didn’t kick in during this assignment, which assigned an art piece to a student who was responsible of researching the piece and presenting to the class in a brief manner, mostly under one minute. It’s not a big assignment, such as a term paper/essay; it’s participation grade. Participation! and an unintentional-with-ignorance plagiarism! Sighh =</p>
<p>delontewest: Lol. Heck no.</p>
<p>LYM: That’s because it’s their first consequence? For my school, your third consequence is an expulsion. 2nd is suspension, and 1st (my case) is parent call and 0 on the assignment.</p>
<p>Yea, I also just found out a few months ago (from a CC thread) that there were actually specific rules/laws for plagiarism. Some of the stuff is obscure, but plagiarism is taken really seriously because it counts as theft. </p>
<p>If it is a small project and it was really an honest/uninformed mistake, most teachers would take the chance to educate/warn/reprimand their student about plagiarism. I don’t think your case warrants a possibility of not being able to graduate.</p>
<p>I don’t think my school is known for its sympathy; i hope you’re right, thoughh. But we’ll see. My teacher is pregnant, that’s probably why. Ahah. :P</p>
<p>Hah. A pregnant hormonal lady once chopped off my friend’s bangs on “accident”. </p>
<p>Update us on what happens And in the future, it’d probably be wise to be more properly informed about plagiarism. There’s been a lot of threads on here about people getting suspended/expelled from their colleges for plagiarizing. It’s taken much more seriously later down in life (college, career, etc) than in high school.</p>
<p>Her hairdresser got pregnant and cut her bangs way too short. </p>
<p>And that’s not the point. He cited it but he didn’t quote it. The only thing he can do is plead that it was an honest mistake and didn’t mean to plagiarize. You can’t claim that you didn’t plagiarize…</p>
Was it a big paper or something?</p>