Instructors will gladly explain procedures for taking tests, writing papers, and completing other course requirements so that students may understand fully their instructor's expectations. One of the objectives of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is to promote the highest standards of professionalism among its graduates. The integrity of work performed is the cornerstone of professionalism. Acts of falsification, cheating, and plagiarism are acts of academic dishonesty which show a failure of integrity, a violation of our educational objectives and will not be accepted or tolerated. To avoid ambiguity, the following guidelines should be followed.
Falsification is to be avoided.
Conspiring or inducing other to forge or alter any official University record. Cheating is also unacceptable. Plagiarism as a form of cheating, is also unacceptable. Plagiarism is the act of presenting as your own creation works actually created by others. Indirectly quoting or paraphrasing material taken from a source without clearly giving proper reference in a way that identifies the original source and distinguishes the paraphrased material from your own compositions.