Academic dishonesty is an especially serious offense. It diminishes the quality of scholarship and defrauds those who depend upon the integrity of the academic programs. Such dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Cheating: Using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise.
• Faculty members are strongly encouraged to make every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct. This includes adequate communication of expectations about what kinds of collaboration are acceptable within the course. Instructors should state in course syllabi their policies and procedures concerning examinations and other academic exercises as well as the use before examinations of shared study aids, examination files, and other related materials and forms of assistance.
• 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.
• Students who are required to do a paper in a course should assume that submitting the same or similar paper to different courses (regardless of whether it is in the same quarter or in different quarters) is not permitted without the explicit permission of the instructors of both courses.
• Fabrication: Falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.
• Students must use/acknowledge the actual source from which cited information was obtained. For example, a student may not reproduce sections from a book review and indicate that the section was obtained from the book itself.
• Students who attempt to alter and resubmit returned academic work with intent to defraud the faculty member will be in violation of this section. For example, a student may not change an answer on a returned exam and then claim that they deserve additional credit.
• Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
• For example, a student who knowingly allowed copying from his or her paper during an examination would be in violation of this section.
• Providing information about the contents of an examination to a student who will later take the examination, or taking an examination on behalf of another student, are violations of academic honesty.
• Plagiarism: Intentionally or knowingly representing the words, ideas, or work of another as one’s own in any academic exercise, including but not limited to:

  a) using another person’s written or spoken words without complete and proper citation;

  b) using information from a World Wide Website, CD-ROM or other electronic source without complete and proper citation;

  c) using statistics, graphs, charts and facts without acknowledging their source;

  d) submitting a paper purchased from a term-paper service;

  e) paraphrasing, which is imitating someone else’s argument using other words without acknowledging the source;

  f) claiming credit for someone else’s artistic work, such as a drawing, script, musical composition or arrangement;

  g) using someone else’s lab report as a source of data or results;

  h) using one’s own or substantially similar work, produced in connection with one course, to fulfill a requirement in another course without prior permission;

  i) submitting the results of a machine translation program as one’s own work.

• Direct Quotation: Every direct quote must be identified by quotation marks, or by appropriate indentation or by other means of identification, and must be properly cited with author(s) name(s), year of publication, page number(s), footnotes and/or endnotes, depending on the citation style used.
• Paraphrase: Prompt acknowledgment is required when material from another source is paraphrased or summarized in whole or in part in one’s own words. To acknowledge a paraphrase properly, one might state: “to paraphrase Locke’s comment…” and conclude with a citation identifying the exact reference. A citation acknowledging only a directly quoted statement does not suffice to notify the reader of any preceding or succeeding paraphrased material.
• Borrowed Facts or Information: Information obtained in one’s reading or research which is not common knowledge among students in the course must be acknowledged. Examples of common knowledge might include the names of leaders of prominent nations, basic scientific laws, etc.
• Material which contributes only to the student’s general understanding of the subject may be acknowledged in the bibliography and need not be immediately cited. One citation is usually sufficient to acknowledge indebtedness when a number of connected sentences in the paper draw their special information from one source. When direct quotations are used, however, quotation format must be used and prompt acknowledgment is required.