Thursday 22 November 2012

Academic Honesty



 “Academic Honesty”, all by itself, these two words hold utmost importance in the life of any truthful person. However, “Academic Honesty” is even more instrumental in the lives of students taking higher level exams or doing extended projects. In our case, Grade 8 is doing an extended project, our Personal Project. But what is “Academic Honesty”?  “Academic Honesty” is the way that students can prove that the work submitted is their own through methods like referencing, linking, using quotation marks, citing resources and having a bibliography. Ms Geeta Verma, the IB coordinator of our school, gave us, 8th Graders, an introduction to the guidelines, with a talk on this subject and how we need  to cite our resources in our Personal Project. Nowadays, people who plagiarise are severely penalised.

-Karan Pandanda
 8A

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