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Course Policies and
Academic Integrity Your successful complete in this course is the aim of both Northwood University and your instructor. This course has been developed and offered in the belief that free inquiry and objective explorations of ideas leads to the development of new knowledge and new possibilities for the human community. Additionally, however, both the University and your instructor offer this course in the context of academic integrity. This means that we recognize and accept our mutual responsibility to offer you an opportunity to grow through an orchestrated set of learning activities designed to equip you better for your career and/or profession after your tenure with us. At the same time, we depend on you to assist us in your growth. We affirm that it is okay for you to make errors as long as they are made in an honest effort to learn and to apply that learning. We also affirm that it is okay for you to be correct, that in arriving at correct answers, you demonstrate your ability to acquire and to apply knowledge in critical thinking and problem solving. Only when you bring your very best effort to the submission of an exercise can we help you to take the next step in your development. Sloppy, thoughtless, or careless work that represents something below your very best is never acceptable. Our expectations of you are as high as our expectations for you. Northwood University and your instructor take it for granted that you are a person of integrity and that you are presently enrolled in a course because it represents an opportunity for you to grow and to better yourself. Your grade in the course, therefore, is not an assessment of your personal worth; rather, it is an indicator of what you have learned and not learned; what you can do, and what you still have remaining to accomplish. Any attempt to submit work that is not your own, merely for the sake of a grade, defeats every value and objective in our mutual educational compact and will destroy the delicate student/teacher relationships founded upon assumed respect and trust. A recurring pattern of dishonesty experienced in the college setting is plagiarism, the intentional use of another person's information as if to suggest that it is your own without appropriate citation and documentation of the true authorship. Plagiarism in this course will result in an automatic "0" for the exercise grade and may result in an "F" in the course. For further information on plagiarism and appropriate documentation, please review the documents accessed through the following links: 1) Plagiarism - Its definition and a student contract 2) The Analytical Paragraph - Illustrations of citation and use of outside references Additional information regarding the ethics of Northwood University can be found in your course syllabus. This page was last
modified on November 29, 2005,
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