To so you should contact the instructor and discuss your idea with him because all alternative projects must be cleared. Issues of Honesty and Appropriate Academic Conduct. Students should note that University of Calgary regulations regarding academic misconduct will be strictly observed in this course. Essentially plagiarism involves submitting or presenting work in a course as if it were the student's own work done expressly for that particular course when, in fact, it is not. While it is recognized that scholarly work often involves reference to the ideas, data and conclusions of other scholars, intellectual honesty requires that such references be explicitly and clearly noted.
Plagiarism is an extremely serious academic offense.
This warning is especially relevant for the projects in this course. Failure to give proper credit for the sources from which materials have been drawn will be severely downgraded. This includes any materials that are downloaded from other Web Sites, graphics, and specific ideas about organization and formatting. These sources must be credited in both the resource itself as well as in the essay submission. Failure to do this constitutes plagiarism as discussed above.