Plagiarism involves the use of another's ideas or writing as one's own. 

Examples include:

Downloading an entire paper off the Internet and turning it in as one's original work.

Downloading paragraphs or groups of sentences from texts online and turning them in as original work.

Reformatting an online text and turning it in as original work.

Copying a print text or another student's work and turning it in as one's own work.

Copying groups of sentences or paragraphs from a print text and turning them in as one's own work.

Knowingly passing off someone else's original idea(s) as one's own work.

Consequences of plagiarism at CVHS