Cheating, Plagiarism, Dishonesty

All cases of cheating, plagiarism, or dishonesty will be reported to the appropriate authorities and will result in an F in the work as the very least form of penalty. An act in cheating, plagiarism, or dishonesty, may result in an F in the course or dissmissal from this college. You must complete and turn in your own work. Any work that is not your own that is submitted for grading constitutes plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined as stealing or passing off as one's own ideas or words of another or using a creative production without crediting the source. Plagiarism consists of:

1. Copying homework, lab reports, research reports, and any quizzes or tests not made available to all students in the course. Any collaboration on laboratory experiments or research reports is not allowed unless announced by the instructor. In other words, don't copy from other students.

2. Paraphrasing published material without acknowledging the source.

3. Making significant use of an idea or arrangement of ideas, e.g., outlines.

4. Writing a paper after consulting persons who provide suitable ideas and incorporating these ideas into the paper without acknowledgement.

5. Submitting under one's own name term papers, or other reports which have been prepared partially or fully by others.

Cheating is defined as

1. Using notes, aids or the help of other students on tests or exams in ways other than those expressly permitted by the instructor.

2. Misreporting, dry-lab, or altering the data in laboratory or research projects involving the collection of data.

Papers or projects used for another course cannot be used in this course. Any material previously submitted for this course will not be accepted in this course.

To aid as a prevention in cheating, primary sources for assessment in this course will be the textbook, videos, online quizzes, and discussion forums. It is important that you complete all of the work and that you do not use the work of others in this course.