Academic Integrity and Citing Sources
Introduced| English | Meaning |
|---|---|
| citation/saɪˈteɪʃn/ | A reference identifying the source of information, words or ideas used in a work. |
| generative AI/ˈdʒenərətɪv ˌeɪ ˈaɪ/ | Artificial-intelligence systems that produce content such as text, images or audio from learned patterns and supplied inputs. |
| plagiarism/ˈpleɪdʒərɪzəm/ | Presenting another person's words, work or ideas as one's own without proper acknowledgement. |
It must be your own
- The portfolio must be your own work — borrowed images and AI tools have strict rules.
- Working from someone else's photo or artwork requires a citation 引用 in that image's fields.
- Substantially copying another artist — even cited — cannot demonstrate your development.
Working from someone else's photograph requires a ____.
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Cite every source you did not make.
Generative AI may be used to create the finished artwork.
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AI may only be a documented exploration tool, never the artwork.
AI cannot make your work
- Generative AI 生成式人工智能 may not make your work — AP policy allows it only as a documented exploration tool.
- The artwork itself must be made by you, by hand.
- Plagiarism 抄袭 cancels scores: the College Board checks, and teachers certify originality.
Allowed or not allowed?
Sort each action by AP academic-integrity rules.
Select all actions that respect academic integrity.
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AI images as your art breaks the rules.
Your own seeing is the prize
- Draw from life and from your own reference photos wherever possible — it also teaches more.
- Integrity is artistic self-interest: your own seeing is the only unique material you have.
- When in doubt, cite — thirty seconds of typing removes the risk.
Copying another artist's work without credit is ____, which cancels scores.
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Plagiarism cancels the portfolio.
Match the source to the correct action.
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Your own seeing is the safest material.
One uncited reference photo can put the whole portfolio at risk — the penalty is out of all proportion to the thirty seconds citing it would have taken. Cite every image you did not make, every time.
You work from a friend's photograph of their grandmother. Cited in the image's materials field ("from a photograph by [name], used with permission"), it is completely fine. Uncited, the same drawing risks the entire portfolio. Same drawing, one line of difference.
The portfolio must be your own: cite every reference photo or artwork you did not make, never let generative AI make the work (only document it), and remember plagiarism cancels scores. Your own seeing is the real material.
Write from the student's own photo
- One piece traces a published photo and is presented as life drawing.
- Another changes a photo the student took.
One piece traces a published photo and is presented as drawing from life. Another starts from a photo the student took and changes the pose. Which one is the student's own work?
The student changed their own photo. The traced image was presented as something it was not.
Which submission is honest student work?
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Using your own reference and changing it is different from presenting someone else's image as life drawing.