Check the schedule for due dates. Attributions Students must properly attribute outside sources for borrowed material. This includes the use of direct quotations, modifications of direct quotations and general ideas and concepts. Plagiarism is a violation of University policy and of the principles of scholarship. Suspected cases will be submitted to the SFSU, Division of Student Affairs, Policy on Plagiarism.
Penalties can be as severe as expulsion from the university.
Beware, a reputation of plagiarism follows you out of the university, to other schools and into the workplace. It does not weaken a paper or an oral presentation to cite other writers and thinkers. Attribution of someone else's work strengthens a presentation. A scholar is not one who generates a new set of ideas every day, but one who assembles the work of others in new and meaningful ways, then adds his or her own findings, views and interpretations. Scholarship is building on the work of others.