COS Plagiarism Policy Adopted by the COS Academic Senate, December 1999. Definition Plagiarism is an act of theft committed by a writer who is stealing someone else s words or ideas.
Plagiarism is an act of dishonesty.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, a writer is misrepresenting someone else's words or ideas as his or her own. The student will be required to rewrite the assignment. The student will fail the course.