You might also ask a classmate or friend to respond to your paper drafts. If you have a medically certified handicap that impedes your ability to work at a normal pace, please see me. UNR instructors are obliged to treat cheating as a serious offense, for academic dishonesty undermines the very enterprise of educating and credentialing students. One form of cheating is copying on an exam or other coursework. Another form is recycling a paper for another course, without the instructor s permission.
Plagiarism amounts to intellectual theft stealing the ideas or work of others.
Note that it is still plagiarism when you change a few words or even when you completely restate someone else's ideas in your own words or copy their techniques without acknowledgement. To reach my office, come to the department office, Room 108A, and see Kathy O Keefe, the department s administrative assistant. I can also usually see you immediately after class. Books on Reserve for This Course in Getchell Library Bijker, Wiebe, Thomas Hughes, and Trevor Pinch. The Social Construction of Technological Systems .