The Graduate Students' Union will provide students with information on their legal rights and the information that advice about acceptable writing standards is available through the Writing Centre. In the following section the plural shall be deemed to include the singular. Cheating on examinations, theses, assignments, work term reports, projects, internship reports, or any other tests. The work referred to includes examinations, theses, assignments, work term reports, projects, internship reports, or any other tests which are to be used in judging the student's performance in a course or programme of study, or on any special tests which the University may offer. By impersonation is meant the imitation of a student or entrance into an arrangement with another person to be impersonated for purposes of taking examinations or tests or carrying out laboratory or other assignments.
Plagiarism is the act of presenting the ideas or works of another as one's own.
This applies to all material such as theses, essays, laboratory reports, work term reports, design projects, seminar presentations, statistical data, computer programmes and research results. The properly acknowledged use of sources is an accepted and important part of scholarship. Use of such material without acknowledgement, however, is contrary to accepted norms of academic behaviour. By theft is meant obtaining by an improper means examination papers, tests, or any other such material. In the case of non-academic units, such as the Registrar's Office, Library and Computing Services, the matter shall be referred through the University officer in charge of that unit.