In every case, the most severe penalty allowable and appropriate for a specific act of academic dishonesty will be imposed. All students who enroll in COM 115 are responsible for knowing what the university's policy is on academic dishonesty. It is your responsibility to read and understand SMSU s Student Academic Integrity Policies and Procedures . In an academic environment, plagiarism is one of the most serious offenses a student can commit. Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional representation of another person's ideas as your own.
Plagiarism sometimes confuses students.
It is plagiarism to turn in any portion of someone else's paper, speech, or outline as your own work. It is plagiarism to take passages from someone's work and include it in a speech, paper, or outline without citing the original author. It is a form of academic misconduct to knowingly allow another student to use your work as their own. All material submitted for evaluation must be the original work of the student and be produced in the current semester. It is a form of academic misconduct to submit any speech, outline or paper written for another course or competition for a grade in COM 115 without the knowledge and permission of the instructor.