Why is student work flagged for plagiarism?

Student work may be flagged for plagiarism if a student fails to properly acknowledge sources or authors of any and all information or evidence from someone else’s work. Proper acknowledgement should appear in citation, attribution, or reference in the body of the student’s work or a bibliographic entry.  

A student who fails to acknowledge the source or author of any and all information or evidence taken from the work of someone else through citation, attribution, or reference in the body of the work, or through a bibliographic entry, will receive a score of 0 on that particular component of the AP Seminar and/or AP Research performance task. In AP Seminar, a team of students that fails to properly acknowledge sources or authors on the Team Multimedia Presentation will receive a group score of 0 for that component of the Team Project and Presentation. See the AP Capstone policy on plagiarism and falsification or fabrication of information.