Borrowing facts, statistics, or other illustrative materials that are not clearly common knowledge without acknowledgement of the source. Copying another student's essay test answers. Copying, or allowing another student to copy, a computer file that contains another student's assignment, and submitting it, in part or in its entirety, as one's own. Working together on an assignment, sharing the computer files and programs involved, and then submitting individual copies of the assignment as ones own individual work. When in doubt about rules concerning plagiarism, students are urged to consult with individual faculty members, academic departments, or recognized handbooks in their field.
Fabrication is the use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings.
This may include the incorrect documentation of secondary source materials. Listing sources in a bibliography that are not directly used in the academic exercise. Submission in a paper, thesis, lab report, or other academic exercise of falsified, invented, or fictitious data or evidence, or deliberate and knowing concealment or distortion of the true nature, origin, or function of such data or evidence. Allowing another student to copy from a test paper. Unauthorized use of course textbook or other material such as a notebook to complete a test or other assignment.