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According to The College of St. Scholastica's Academic Honesty Policy located in the Student Handbook,
"Academic dishonesty is defined as follows: Misrepresentation of the work of others as one's own; dishonesty in testing; violating authorized guidelines established by instructors for individual assignments; sabotaging or damaging the work of others; or engaging in dishonesty in other academic work."
Plagiarism and other academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to the following:
- Misrepresentation of the work of others as one's own
- Using someone else's ideas or words without giving credit
- Reusing work from another class without permission
- Falsification of data or quotes
- Giving or receiving unauthorized help on an assignment or test
- Dishonesty in testing
- Violating authorized guidelines established by instructors for individual assignments
- Sabotaging or damaging the work of others
At The College of St. Scholastica, academic dishonesty can result in failure of an assignment, a course, being denied admission to or dismissed from a department or program, exclusion from extracurricular activities, or expulsion from the College even on the first instance of academic dishonesty.
In order to avoid plagiarizing and its subsequent consequences, check out these links, and as always when in doubt, ask your professor or a librarian.
Turnitin is a program that checks the originality of papers. Any papers submitted to this program will be compared to billions of web pages, books, and other papers in its database. Any phrases from the paper that are found in its database are highlighted with the source given showing what was used in the paper and from where.
Instructions for turnitin for students (pdf)
Instructions for turnitin for faculty (pdf)
Handout for faculty on plagiarism (pdf)
Helpful Information Links to web sites, citation information, tutorials, sample honor codes, articles and a list of related books here in the Library
Prevention Tips
Plagiarism Cases - Links to real plagiarism cases
Copyright Resources - Useful tips and information regarding copyright
The College of St. Scholastica's Academic Honesty Policy
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