Accused students will be informed after the report has been submitted. Last year I made ten accusations against nine students. Six students received F grades and three were given zeros on plagiarized papers, typically reducing their grades in the course by one letter. There are no mitigating circumstances for academic dishonesty. Plagiarism is the misrepresentation of another person's writing as one's own.
Plagiarism includes photocopying or changing the name on another student's paper.
It also includes incorporating from published or unpublished sources one or more sentences, whether they are intact or slightly modified, whether the sentences are consecutive or scattered among sentences you have written your self. It even includes using pieces of sentences written by other authors in your paper. The point of prohibiting plagiarism is that you are expected to learn about a topic and then write your own paper based on what you learned. If I can prove that plagiarized on any of the course papers, I will report it to the Academic Judiciary Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences, and recommend that a grade of F in the course be asssigned18. Innocence is easily verified if students with similar incorrect answers sit far apart during the test.