The Students, Faculty and staff of Murdock Middle School believe academic honesty to be central to the mission of our school.  We commit ourselves to high standards; promoting academic integrity for all students.  Commitment to academic honesty upholds the mutual respect and moral integrity of our school's values and expectations.  To Ride the Wave of Student Success means to be responsible and to lead with integrity.  The Students, Faculty and Staff of Murdock Middle School expect all students to practice academic honesty in all academic endeavors.

- Plagiarism is to commit literary theft; to steal and pass of as one's own ideas or words, and to create the production of another.  When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by citing the source.  Even if you revise or paraphrase the words of someone else, if you use someone else's ideas you must give the author credit.  Some Internet users believe that anything available on-line is public domain.  Such is not the case.  Ideas belong to those who create and articulate them.  To use another's words or ideas without giving credit to the originator is stealing.


- Cheating would be to copy or give an assignment to a student to be copied without permission from the teacher (this includes homework);  using, supplying, or communicating unauthorized materials, including using notes;  using computer or other technology, during an exam or project (without permission); copying answers from another student's test.