plagiarism

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of integrity in all their academic work. It is further
expected that any written assignment presented by students in fulfillment of course requirements will reflect
their own work unless credit is properly given to others. Therefore, students must identify any part of an
assignment which uses the words or materials of other people and give credit for the source. Failure to do so is a
form of stealing known as plagiarism and is a very serious offense.
Plagiarism is defined as the act of appropriating all or part of a literary composition of another person or the
ideas or language of another person and passing them off as one's own. It may consist of:
" quoting from a source without using quotation marks,
" transcribing published material,
" using someone else's ideas without appropriate references,
" or submitting work which has been reproduced or bought from another person.

Anyone who assists another in such academic dishonesty is equally responsible. The faculty are encouraged to
inform their students of the College's policy on plagiarism at the beginning of each semester.