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Students are expected to
complete all assignments on their own and independent of outside
help in drafting and revising each composition. Plagiarism—the use
of another’s work or ideas as your own—on any exercise will result
in an automatic failure of the exercise. Flagrant
plagiarism—the intentional copying and use of substantial amounts of
someone else’s work without appropriate citations and
documentation—will result in an automatic failure in the course.
To avoid plagiarism, you
must cite the author’s name and source in the text of the paragraph
and, for formal research papers, document the page number(s) or
location in the document from where the information is found. This
includes both print and non-print resources. At the paragraph
level, each use of someone else’s ideas must be clearly cited; there
should be no ambiguity—sentence by sentence—idea by idea—what or
whose information you are using. On the back, see the attached
sample of an appropriately cited and documented paragraph.
What kinds of information
(references) must be cited and documented
Quotations
Even the use of a key word or phrase must be placed in
quotation marks, cited, and documented.
Paraphrases
Rewording someone else’s information in your own diction and
style must be cited and documented.
Summaries
Your references to the main ideas and supporting information
from another person’s work must also be cited and documented.
Allusions
Casual (undeveloped) references to information someone
else’s article or other form of publication/presentation should be
cited and documented.
Note: Your instructor uses
special software designed to identify texts copied from Internet
resources and their Internet addresses.
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instructor) -----------------------------------
Student
Acknowledgment
I have read the definition
and explanation of plagiarism above. I understand that both casual
and flagrant plagiarism reflects academic dishonesty that carries
penalties as defined above.
I accept responsibility for
my work on each exercise completed for this course and the
consequences for any violation of the Student Code of Conduct and
the provisions for plagiarism explained in this document.
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Student
Signature
Date
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Course and
section number
This
page was last modified on November 29, 2005,
and is maintained by Dr. Geoffrey Grimes.
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