Are Any of These Cheating?

• copying someone else's homework
• copying someone else's assignment or report
• working on homework with one or two friends and then all handing in the same answers, essays, etc.
• working with one or more friends on homework or an assignment when the teacher told you to do the work independently
• copying another student's answers on a test
• letting someone copy answers from your test paper
• writing notes (or a formula, or dates) on something like a small piece of paper, or even on your arm, to look at during a test
• pretending you're sick so you can take a test later, then asking your friend to tell you the questions
• asking your friend who took the test first period to tell you the questions before you take the test fifth period
• reading a condensed version of the original book assigned for a report
• seeing the film or video of the book instead of reading a book assigned for a report
• using Cliff's Notes when you are supposed to be reading an entire play or other literary work
• reading an English version of a literary work assigned to be read in a foreign language
• asking your parent or a friend to help you with a science or social science project
• asking your parent or a friend to do all or parts of your science or social science project for you
• looking in a file of old tests to study last year's final exam from the teacher you have for the same class
• brainstorming an assignment with other students and then each writing your own essay
• sharing lab experiment results with classmates, each changing some data to make your reports look different
• "fudging" the data on your lab report to get the results you want or need
• not telling your teacher that the score on your test is added wrong in your favor
• not telling your teacher when a wrong answer was not marked wrong on your test
• changing your score or grade in your teacher's print or electronic grade book

Reprinted with permission from Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-Up Call by Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss.  Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2000.