Plagiarism - Users will provide proper citation for information gathered from all sources in any format. Plagiarism is taking the ideas or writings of others and presenting them as if they were yours.
The following is in the Cranston Public Schools Student & Family Handbook as one of the offenses that is subject to disciplinary action up to and including detention, suspension of up to ten(10) days and/or exclusion from school:
Cheating/Plagiarism - Any act of academic dishonesty or breaking the rules to gain academic advantage, including cheating on tests or other assignments and appropriating another’s work as one’s own without the required citation or attribution.
Using the library's databases that we subscribe to when doing research ensures that the information you use is credible.
A database is an organized collection of data stored on a computer. The word data can be defined simply as information. The database information could be anything such as an online phone directory. In this case, the databases we use are collections of articles written by experts.
