Academic Dishonesty

I welcome you to this classroom community with the assumption that the work you do will be your own. However, distinguishing your work from the work of another can be tricky at times, for both you and your instructor. You should know that presenting another’s work as your own, even if by accident, is a serious violation of the SIUC Student Code of Conduct, which identifies, among other things, the following as acts of academic misconduct.

University Policies Available @ http://policies.siu.edu/_common/documents/StudentConductCode.pdf

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1-Cheating

Intentionally obtaining or attempting to use unauthorized materials or information (notes, texts or study aids) or unauthorized help from another person (looking at a test paper, asking a question during an exam) in any work submitted for evaluation toward academic credit including examinations, quizzes, laboratory exercises or other assignments.

2-Fabrication

Intentional and unauthorized falsification, invention or copying of data, practicum experience, research or laboratory findings, or bibliographic references or citations in any academic course work.

3-Collusion

The facilitation of academic dishonesty by intentionally or knowingly providing or attempting to provide any form of unauthorized help to students in violation of this Code.

4-Plagiarism

Representing someone else’s work from any source, including the internet, as your own or providing materials for such a representation. To avoid plagiarism, students must acknowledge the source whenever:

1. quoting another person’s actual words;
   
2. using another person’s idea, opinion or theory;
   
3. using others’ facts, statistics or other illustrative material—unless the information is common knowledge.