Instructional Policy on Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty includes cheating and plagiarism. Cheating is the unauthorized use of assistance with intent to deceive an instructor or any other individual responsible for evaluating a student’s work. The following are examples of unethical actions:
- Submission of any materials not prepared by students but presented as their own.
- The unauthorized possession and/or use of notes, books or the soliciting of assistance from another student during an examination.
- Illegitimate possession or distribution of examinations, test materials, and/or answer keys to tests and examinations.
Plagiarism refers to the use of another person’s work without giving proper credit to that person. A student must give proper credit through the use of appropriate citation format when (a) copying verbatim another person’s work (e.g., words, phrases, sentences or entire passages); (b) paraphrasing another person’s work (i.e., borrowing but rewording that person’s facts, opinions or ideas); and (c) summarizing another’s work (i.e., use of one’s own words to condense longer passages into a sentence or two).