Plagiarism: What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism consists of using the words, ideas, concepts or data of another person without proper attribution.

It shall include, but is not limited to:

• Copying passages from electronic and/or copyrighted works of others into one’s own homework, essay, term paper, or thesis without acknowledgment;

• Use of the views, opinions, or insights of another person without acknowledgment;

• Paraphrasing of another person’s characteristic or original phraseology, metaphor, or other literary device without acknowledgment.

Useful links on Plagiarism

• Avoiding Plagiarism Online Writing Lab(OWL) at Purdue

• Plagiarism.org

 

Copying or downloading in part, or in their entirety, articles or research papers found on the Internet or copying ideas found on the Web and not giving proper attribution

A student who commits an act of academic dishonesty is subject to disciplinary action as described in the Students Code of Ethics 

A faculty member who discovers a violation of this Code may impose the following measures:

• oral warning to the student;

• written warning to the students;

• reduction in score in the academic evaluation involved or one of its components;

• retake of the academic evaluation involved or one its components;

Disciplinary measures should be applied in a timely manner, as soon as practicable after the discovery of the violation.