Scholastic Integrity
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- Scholastic dishonesty shall include, but not be limited to cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion. Cheating
- Copying from or reviewing another student's examination prior to or during the examination.
- Copying from another student's paper, laboratory report, presentation, computer program, or other assignment.
- Using or possessing unauthorized notes, books, test materials, electronic devices, or other aids in any academic exercise or activity.
- Submitting the same paper, report, or other assignment for more than one course without the expressed permission of the faculty member.
- Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test without permission from the test administrator.
- Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of a paper, another assignment, or test, whether it has been administered or not.
- The unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of a test, whether it has been administered or not.
- Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for one's self, to take a test.
- Bribing another person to obtain a test or information about a test, whether it has been administered or not.
- Plagiarism
- Appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another's work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it into one's own written work.
- Copying or using the ideas, writings, paraphrases, data, reports, graphic designs, or computer codes of published or unpublished work of another person without appropriate citation or acknowledgments.
- Reproducing or using the ideas, materials, works, paraphrases, data, reports, graphic designs, or computer codes prepared by another person or agency without authorization, permission or acknowledgment.
- Collusion
- Unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements including a presentation, laboratory report, quiz, homework, take-home examination, project, or other work expected to be completed as an individual or independently.
- Academic Falsification
- Providing false, altered, or fabricated information or documentation in the context of an academic assignment, examination, or obligation, such as creating a false source for an assignment or citing a source one did not use.
- Altering grades on an assignment, examination, laboratory report, quiz, or other academic work and submitting such to a faculty member or College District employee.
- Using false or altered information, data, or identification in the context of an academic obligation.
- Intellectual Property Dishonesty
- Altering, removing, or defacing College District library or educational materials.
- Selling, electronically posting, publishing, or distributing course lecture notes, handouts, recordings, or other materials or information from the faculty member of the course without the expressed permission of the faculty member.
- Removing or intentionally damaging the academic property of a faculty member or another student, including projects, books, papers, notes, laboratory assignments, clinical forms, or electronic hardware or software.
- Obtaining or using the password of a faculty member or another student to access course hardware or software.
- Taking credit on a group assignment when one did not contribute toward completion of the assignment.
- Violating the ethical standards of practices in professional programs (i.e., health sciences, nursing, emergency medical assistance, and the like).
- Academic Dishonesty Facilitation
Assisting any person in the commission of academic misconduct, including but not limited to:
- Aiding, abetting, or attempting to commit an academic misconduct violation.
- Allowing another student to copy or use one's answers during an examination or in the completion of an assignment.
- Taking, completing, or attempting to take an examination or complete assignment for another student.
- Listing another student on a group assignment when the student did not contribute in any manner toward completion of the assignment.
Plagiarism, which should be avoided at all costs, includes the following student actions:
- Turning in someone else's ideas, opinions, theories, or work as your own;
- Unintentionally or inadvertently turning in someone else's ideas, opinions, theories, or work as your own as the result of failing to document sources both internally and in the Works Cited;
- Copying words, ideas, or images from someone without giving credit; Failing to put a quotation in quotations marks;
- Giving incorrect information about the source of information, quotations, or images;
- Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit;
- Copying so many words, ideas, or images from a source that it makes up the majority of the student's work, whether or not the student gives credit.
Also, please be aware that you are the student, and it is your writing I expect to see.
· DO NOT have another person write, type, edit any part of your writing assignments.
· DO NOT have another person revise any part of your writing assignments outside of in-class workshop sessions or writing center tutorials.
· DO NOT use someone else’s writing assignment or buy one from a “professional” source.
· DO NOT use material on the internet or from print sources without documentation.
Consequences: An assignment in ENGL 2311.313/314 that the instructor considers to be in whole or in part intentionally plagiarized will receive a zero, the student must discuss the incident with the instructor to discuss their future in the class, and the incident will be reported to the college. If the instructor finds a student has plagiarized in whole or in part a further assignment, the student will not be allowed to complete the course.
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