Academic dishonesty includes plagiarism as well as any deliberate attempt to gain advantage.
Dishonest practices include fabrication of data, cheating, or uttering by a student of false statements relating to academic work. Plagiarism should be distinguished from cooperation and collaboration. Often, students may be permitted or expected to work on assignments collectively, and to present the results either collectively or separately. This is not a problem so long as it is clearly understood whose work is being presented, for example, by way of formal acknowledgement or by foot-noting. The following are some examples of academic dishonesty.