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Academic Integrity:
Pearson Education defines plagiarism this way: Simply put,
plagiarism is using someone else's
words and ideas in a paper and acting as though they were your own
. This definition includes
copying someone else's ideas, graphs, pictures, or anything that you borrow without giving
credit to the originator of the words and ideas. It definitely includes anything you download
from an Internet site or copy out of a book, a newspaper, or a magazine. It also includes
stealing the ideas of another person without giving her or him proper credit.
Some obvious examples of plagiarism include
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copying someone else's paper.
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taking short or long quotations from a source without identifying the source.
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turning in a paper you bought over the Internet.
Some less-obvious examples include
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changing a few words around from a book or article and pretending those words are
your own.
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rearranging the order of ideas in a list and making the reader think you produced the
list.
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borrowing ideas from a source and not giving proper credit to the source.
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turning in a paper from another class. Whether this is plagiarism or not depends on your
instructor—ask first!
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using information from an interview or an online chat or email, etc., without properly
citing the source of the information.
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using words that were quoted in one source and acting and citing the original source as
though you read it yourself.
Please go through the Understanding Plagiarism tutorial on their site.
The consequences of plagiarism in this class depend on the level exhibited, but are at a
minimum a failing grade on the assignment up to failing the class. Save yourself the headache
and
JUST DON’T DO IT.
Disabilities and Special Needs:
Please let me know if you have a special need or
accommodation request and I will work with you and Disability Services to make sure it is taken
care of.