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SECTION
8: Academic Integrity
8.1 Plagiarism and Cheatingg
Plagiarism or any other form of cheating in examinations,
term tests or academic
work is subject to serious academic penalty (e.g. suspension
or expulsion
from the faculty or university). Cheating in examinations
or tests
may take the form of copying from another student or bringing
unauthorized
materials into the exam room (e.g., crib notes, pagers or
cell phones).
Exam cheating can also include exam impersonation. (Please
see Section
4.2.8 on Exam Personation). A student found guilty of contributing
to cheating
in examinations or term assignments is also subject to serious
academic
penalty.
To plagiarize is to take ideas or words of another person
and pass them off
as one’s own. In short, it is stealing something intangible
rather than an object.
Plagiarism applies to any written work, in traditional or
electronic format,
as well as orally or verbally presented work. Obviously it
is not
necessary to state the source of well known or easily verifiable
facts, but
students are expected to appropriately acknowledge the sources
of ideas
and expressions they use in their written work, whether quoted
directly or
paraphrased. This applies to diagrams, statistical tables
and the like, as well
as to written material, and materials or information from
Internet sources.
To provide adequate and correct documentation is not only
an indication
of academic honesty but is also a courtesy which enables the
reader to consult
these sources with ease. Failure to provide appropriate citations
constitutes
plagiarism. It will also be considered plagiarism and/or cheating
if a
student submits a term paper written in whole or in part by
someone other
than him/herself, or copies the answer or answers of another
student in any
test, examination, or take-home assignment.
Working with other students on assignments, laboratory work,
take-home
tests, or on-line tests, when this is not permitted by the
instructor, can con stitute Inappropriate Collaboration and
may be subject to penalty under the
Student Discipline By-Law.
An assignment which is prepared and submitted for one course
should not
be used for a different course. This is called “duplicate
submission” and
represents a form of cheating because course requirements
are expected to
be fulfilled through original work for each course.
When in doubt about any practice, ask your professor or instructor.
The Student Advocacy Office, 519 University Centre, 474-7423,
is a resource
available to students dealing with Academic Integrity matters.
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