Inc. All rights reserved. As an academic community devoted to the life of the mind, Middlebury College requires of every student complete intellectual honesty in the preparation of papers, laboratory reports, and other academic exercises. The habit of intellectual honesty is essential to both intellectual and moral growth. Effective evaluation of student work and helpful instruction can take place only in an environment where intellectual honesty is respected.
Plagiarism is a violation of intellectual honesty.
Plagiarism is passing off another person's work as one's own. It is taking and presenting as one's own the ideas, writings, creations, or inventions of another. It makes no difference whether the source is a student or a professional in some field. For example, in written work whenever as much as a sentence or a key phrase is taken from the work of another without specific citation of the source, the issue of plagiarism arises. Paraphrasing is the close restatement of another's idea using approximately the language of the original.