See my ideas about testing for more information. Thus the purpose of this document is to provide you with some guidelines you can use to help guide your interactions with other students on graded assignments. Here are some things to avoid. Don't copy material verbatim from any source into your submitted work. This means that while it is acceptable to look at how others solved a similar problem to the one you are working on, you cannot use their solution precisely as they framed it.
Complex problems have many solutions and can be solved using many styles.
Evolve your own . Don't let another student enter any material into the work you are about to submit. This is really the same as the first rule. Not only shouldn't you copy material verbatim from one of your sources, you shouldn't let one of your sources represent you. There is really no difference between copying someone else's work and letting that someone else type their words into your documents .