Cheating is the representation of someone else's work as one's own. Unauthorized collaborating with or consulting another person to complete a project or homework assignment. It is the student's responsibility to ask the faculty member which activities are authorized and permitted in each course. Unacknowledged quotation of a published work. In the academic community there is variation in how often and to what degree the sources of ideas need to be cited.
Faculty members can provide guidelines within academic disciplines.
When the work depends upon the contributions of others, the basic principle to be followed is to acknowledge one's indebtedness to them. Laboratory Fraud Persons who misrepresent their own work on laboratory projects commit laboratory fraud. Submitting a copy of a commercially-available computer program as one's own work. Listing fictitious works in a bibliography. The thrust of the academic integrity policy of Mount Vernon Nazarene College is twofold.