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Director Statement on Plagiarism and Academic Cheating

From: Daniel P. Tompkins, Director, Intellectual Heritage Program
To: students enrolled in Intellectual Heritage courses
Date posted: December 27, 2000

The Intellectual Heritage Program aims to acquaint you with important original texts from antiquity to the present day and, equally importantly, to help you understand and use other challenging texts throughout college and afterward.

Because writing papers is an essential part of this development, we take your writing very seriously in IH 51 and 52. Two basic elements of this writing process are ” the development of independent thought and a respect for the thoughts of others” referred to in the University Bulletin statement on Plagiarism and Academic Cheating

As the Bulletin goes on to say, “The prohibition against plagiarism and cheating is intended to foster this independence and respect. “

The Program expects all students to follow University policy on this matter:

Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of another person's labor, another person's ideas, another person's words, another person's assistance. Normally, all work done for courses – papers, examinations, homework exercises, laboratory reports, oral presentations -- is expected to be the individual effort of the student presenting the work. Any assistance must be reported to the instructor. If the work has entailed consulting other resources -- journals, books, or other media -- these resources must be cited in a manner appropriate to the course. It is the instructor's responsibility to indicate the appropriate manner of citation. Everything used from other sources -- suggestions for organization of ideas, ideas themselves, or actual language -- must be cited. Failure to cite borrowed material constitutes plagiarism.

Your Intellectual Heritage instructor is responsible for assigning penalties for plagiarism. Penalties usually range from failure on a particular assignment to failure in the course. In some cases, the penalty can be suspension or expulsion from the University.

Click here for the full policy as approved and adopted by the University Senate.