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What is Academic Dishonesty?
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Cheating
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"Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise."
- Students completing any examination should assume that external assistance (e.g. books, notes, calculators, conversation with others) is prohibited unless specifically authorized by the instructor.
- Students must not allow others to conduct research or prepare any work for them without advance authorization from the instructor. This comment includes, but is not limited to, the services of commercial term paper companies.
- Substantial portions of some academic work may not be submitted for credit or honors more than once without authorization from each instructor.
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Fabrication
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"Intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise."
- "Invented" information may not be used in any laboratory experiment or other academic exercise without notice to and authorization from the instructor
- One should acknowledge reliance upon the actual source from which cited information was obtained.
- Students who attempt to alter and resubmit academic work without notice to the instructor would be in violation of the Code of Student Conduct
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Facilitating Academic Dishonesty
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"Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty."
- Helping another student cheat, fabricate, or plagiarize.
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Plagiarism
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"Intentionally or knowingly representing the words or areas of another as one's own in academic exercise."
- Information that is obtained in one's reading or research, which is not common knowledge among students in the course, must be acknowledged.
- Direct Quotation: Every direct quotation must be identified by quotation marks or by appropriate indentation and must be promptly cited in a footnote. (The MLA Style Sheet and K.L. Turabian's Manual outline proper footnote style for many academic departments.)
- Paraphrase: Immediate acknowledgement is required when material from another source is paraphrased or summarized, in whole or part, in your own words. Paraphrasing is not reordering words in a sentence.
- Textbooks and handouts are not considered common knowledge
- Materials that contribute only to one's general understanding of the subject may be acknowledged in the bibliography and need not be immediately footnoted.
- Contact The Writing Center for more information.
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