Orme Student Writing Documents

Orme Student Writing Guide.pdf
A four-page overview of word length, publication vs. manuscript format, documentation styles, paperless writing and editing, typing rules, and keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word.    

Numbered-references documentation style.pdf
A two-page step-by-step guide to a simple citation style widely used for documentating short articles. 

Publication Format Template.doc
Open and SaveAs this template to simplify formatting your writing project in a professional-looking publication style (single-spaced, two-column, letter-size pages, body text 10 point Times Roman, appropriate header and subheads). Then either type directly into the template or copy and paste material created elsewhere. Be careful not to delete any of the hidden formatting codes, which you can view/hide by pressing Ctrl+Shift+8. 

Sample of publication format article.pdf
Here is how an article formatted with the template above would look, documented in the Numbered References style and with a graphic inserted.  

Practical Guide to the International System of Units (SI).pdf
In Orme research projects, quantities must generally be expressed in SI units, except for historical subjects.  SI is the simplified modern version of the various metric systems. This 14-page guide explains all SI units and prefixes and the rules for the correct expression of quantities, with correct examples and common mistakes. However, it does not explain how to convert other units to SI, which you may have to do if your sources use non-SI units.


Ordering Textbooks

The best places to buy bargain-priced books are amazon.com, half.com and ebay.com. If a book is not available at those sites, you can Google the ISBN.

BOOK LIST (2012-13)

Library

The Phillips Library is open for student use Sunday through Friday.  It offers books, periodicals, computer assisted on-line and CD Rom data access, interlibrary loan, and a quiet and attractive place to study.  Lost books are charged to students.

Computer Learning Center

The Julia O'Brien Wilcox Computer Learning Center is a state-of-the-art facility featuring two computer labs, each providing sixteen Pentium computer workstations, with access to the Internet via a T1 line.  Each lab also has two networked printers, a scanner, multimedia projector, and SMART Board.  The School may begin issuing charges to students for printing costs in the Library and/or Computer Learning Center

I Will...

• Embrace Academic Integrity. Ensure that all work submitted is original, or has appropriate citations.
• Make Orme a safe place. Watch out for each other, and help make Orme an environment in which every member of the community is safe from physical and emotional harassment.
• Be a responsible leader and a discriminating follower. We each have distinctive areas of potential leadership.  Find and develop your own leadership skills in constructive ways.  When you decide to follow others, be sure the direction they have chosen is a good one.
• Do my best every day, and help provide opportunities for myself and others. When you find an opportunity to excel, you can involve a friend as well and that makes the experience much richer.
• Respect myself, others around me, and our environment. Respect begins with self-respect. Make good judgments and understand that you have to take better care of yourself than anyone else ever could. When you respect yourself, it makes it much easier to treat others with the respect every person deserves.  Just as you are good to people, be good to our world.
• Think critically. The most important skill you need to develop at Orme is the ability to be a critical thinker. Avoid the superficial and really think about issues.  Each one of us can become an active and engaged learner, and an enthusiastic teacher.
• Know myself. Self-discovery is a gift.  Use your time at Orme to figure out who you are, and to make a plan for your life.
• Live a healthy life. Make intelligent, safe, and healthful choices so that you can live a full, dynamic life. Do not ingest, inject, or inhale any harmful substances into your body.
• Maintain and promote a positive attitude.  A positive attitude is contagious. Look on the bright side of things, and be there to encourage others to do the same. It really will make a difference in your day.
• Help out - everyone is part of the solution.  If you see something that needs to be improved upon, work together towards a solution.
• Embrace diversity with compassion and understanding. We learn from those who are different from us. Boarding schools must celebrate their diversity, and do everything possible to be places of international understanding, compassion, and social progress.

Academic Honesty

The Orme School expects all students to be honest and truthful. Cheating on any work, and plagiarism are dishonest acts, constituting a major offense against the School's Honor Code:

As a member of The Orme School Community, I pledge my honor that I will not lie, cheat, or steal.

• Plagiarism will be discussed in all classes during the first week of school. In any course requiring library research, the instructor will devote time to a presentation on plagiarism, its avoidance, and potential consequences and/or penalties.
• If a student is in doubt about what constitutes cheating or plagiarism, they should consult their instructor, or advisor, before the assignment is due or the examination is taken.
• As a consequence for academic dishonesty (cheating or plagiarism), the instructor shall award a failing grade for the paper, test, or project, and the School will take appropriate measures, up to and including dismissal for more than one instance of cheating or plagiarism.

Academic environment in the classroom

Since a primary goal of The Orme School is to ensure that all students achieve academically to the best of their ability, students are expected to contribute to the classroom atmosphere in a positive manner, and must never impede the progress of others. An instructor may find it necessary to send a student from the classroom to the Dean of Studies for reasons of discipline. Occasionally, a student may be sent to the Head of School. If this occurs, the consequences will be as follows:

First Infraction

The student will be reminded that impeding academic progress will not be allowed. The student will write a letter of apology to the teacher and to the class, including in the letter a plan to correct inappropriate behavior before returning to the classroom. The Dean of Studies will notify the parents and inform them of the situation. Any delay in writing the letter of apology will result in unexcused absences for those classes missed as the student will not be allowed back in class until the apology is accepted by the teacher.

Second Infraction

The student will be suspended from class for one week. During that time, the student will be solely responsible for obtaining and completing all work assigned. The student will work during class time in an assigned study hall.

Third Infraction

The student will be removed from the course for the remainder of the year, and assigned to study hall.  No credit will be granted. This would necessitate a required course being repeated during the following year or, in some cases, over the summer.

Standards of conduct

Discipline, including expulsion, dismissal or any other lesser penalty may result from:

1. Furnishing false information to the School with the intent to deceive, including cheating on an exam, plagiarism, and signing an advisor's or faculty member's name to any official school document;
2. Knowingly providing false information, or withholding information from the School or a School official;
3. Violation of the terms of disciplinary sanctions;
4. Vandalism, malicious destruction, damage or misuse of private or public property, including library and media materials;
5. Forging, altering, falsifying, destroying, misuse or unauthorized use of a School document, records, or identifications, or using The Orme School's stationary, business card, or logo, or indentifying oneself in any way as an agent of the School for personal non-School business;
6. Obstruction or disruption of teaching, research, administration, disciplinary proceedings or other School activities on School premises;
7. Verbal or physical abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion, and/or other conduct or action that threatens the health and/or safety of a member of the School community, including oneself, or any other person on or off School property, or at a School-sponsored or supervised activity.  (Physical abuse against another constitutes fighting and may result in suspension or expulsion from the School.);
8. Theft, wrongful appropriation (i.e., theft with intent to temporarily deprive the owner of possession), unauthorized possession, or sale or damage to property of the School or of any organization affiliated with the School or of another member of the School community (i.e., faculty, staff, student or campus visitor);
9. Unauthorized use or entry to School facilities, or unauthorized possession, duplication or use of keys to School facilities;
10. Use, possession, sale, knowledge of, or being in the presence of narcotics, marijuana, steroids, sedatives, tranquilizers, drug paraphanalia, stimulants, hallucinogens, and other similar non-prescribed agents known to be harmful or habit-forming drugs or chemicals. Having knowledge of the above or being present when a violation occurs constitutes equal responsibility and involvement in the incident;
11. Possession, while on School-owned or controlled property, or at a School-sponsored or supervised activity, of any weapon such as, but not limited to, rifles, shotguns, paintball guns, ammunition, handguns, airguns, dangerous chemicals, incendiary devices or other explosive substances including fireworks, bows, slingshots, knives or machetes, or other objects classified or used as weapons with the potential for danger or harm.  Any weapon or simulated weapons brought onto School property are subject to confiscation;
12. Disorderly conduct or lewd, indecent, or obscene conduct on School-owned or controlled property, or at School-sponsored functions;
13. Participation of students in group activities on or adjacent to the campus which cause damage to public or private property, cause injuries to persons or interfere with the orderly functioning of the School or the normal flow of traffic;
14. Violation of properly constituted rules and regulations governing the use of motor vehicles on School-owned or controlled property;
15. Failure or refusal to comply with a verbal or written request from a School official acting in an official capacity;
16. Failure to comply with directives of School officials acting in the performance of their duties;
17. Violation of written School policies and regulations as stipulated here, or as promulgated in this Handbook, other official School publications and announced by authorized personnel;
18. Inciting other students to violate written School policies and regulations as promulgated and announced by authorized personnel;
19. Falsely reporting the presence of an unlawful explosive or incendiary device with the intent to mislead, deceive, or disrupt the operation of the School or a scheduled event sponsored by the School;
20. Any act of arson, falsely reporting a fire or other emergency; falsely setting off fire alarms; tampering with fire extinguishers or fire alarms, hoses or other emergency equipment, or removing them from their proper location, except when done with proper need for such equipment;
21. Willful failure to appear at or to be an accessory to the commission of any act in violation of this Handbook, or other standards of conduct as published by the School;
22. Committing an act or attempting to commit an act on School property or involving a member of the School community (i.e., faculty, staff, students, or campus visitors) that would be in violation of the law code of the State of Arizona and/or Federal Law;
23. Any action off School-owned or controlled property that reflects negatively on the School;
24. Bicycling, skateboarding and roller-blading inside campus facilities or in the areas around and adjacent to any academic, administrative, or housing facilities, including parking lots, if posted prohibiting same.  At all other outdoor locations of School property, or at School-sponsored or supervised activities, due care should be taken to ensure the safety of others;
25. Use or possession of alcohol on School property, or illegal use on School property at any time.  being under the influence of alcohol may be viewed as use;
26. Fraudulent business transactions on or off campus, or in the local community, including forgery and failure to meet contractual obligations;
27. Security violations (including attempted violations or misuse of computing facilities, software or hardware);
28. Failure to comply with sanctions imposed under the Standards of Conduct

Student Internet Service

Part of our responsibility in preparing students for the future is to provide them access to the tools they will be using as adults. The Orme School offers direct Internet service and access to select campus network resources to our students in the Library, Computer Learning Center, the Learning & Writing Centers, Mimi's Cafe, the Boys' Dorm Parent Room and Student Commons. With this opportunity comes responsibility.  Students and parents are required to read and sign our "Use Agreement."  When the parent and student have read and signed the Agreement, the student will be given an "Internet Driver's License," and will be able to access the Internet at these locations.  Students are encouraged to obtain free and geographically flexible email accounts through services such as Yahoo and Hotmail.  It is essential that the rules in the "Use Agreement" be followed.  Violations of the School netwoek Acceptable Use Agreement can result in disciplinary action from the temporary suspension of computer privileges to dismissal, depending upon the severity of the abuse.

Student computers

Some students bring their own computers to campus.  If your student does so, please keep in mind the following issues and rules:

Students are responsible for the security and working order of their computers.  Due to our remote location, computer repair can be more costly and time consuming.  Repair services are available in Prescott, as well as in north Phoenix at the Metro Center Best Buy and CompUSA.  Students are responsible for making arrangements for the repair and delivery of computer parts.  For compatibility purposes, keep in mind that the School computers operate using Windows 2000 and Office XP.  Students are encouraged to lock their rooms when computers are inside and the student is not in the room in order to prevent theft or damage, and to prevent unauthorized use of their computer.