Academic dishonesty is any act of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, abuse of resources, forgery of academic documents, dissimulation, or sabotage, and any act of aiding and abetting academic dishonesty. The following definitions make clear the policy of the college. Cheating is using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise. Fabrication is the falsification or invention of any information or citation in any academic exercise. Plagiarism is the representation of the words and ideas of another as one s own in any academic exercise.
Plagiarism includes failing to give a citation for using work from another person or source.
Modifications and rephrasings do not reduce the requirement for giving a citation. This also applies to information obtained electronically, such as from the Internet. Dissimulation is the disguising or altering of one s own actions as to deceive another about the real nature of one s actions concerning an academic exercise. Abuse of resources is the damaging of any resource material or inappropriately limiting access to resource material which is necessary for academic work. Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized changing or construction of any academic document.