As a participant in this course, you are expected to contribute. This means actively participating . Participation in this process is one of the best ways to clarify your understandings and to test your conclusions. After all, development of sophisticated computer systems owes much to debate. Cheating - Plagiarism Cheating is is to deprive of something valuable by the use of deceit or fraud .
Plagiarism is to steal or pass off one s words as their own .
Each of these acts in this course will not be tolerated. If an act of cheating or plagiarism is known and admission is made a double zero for the work discovered will be placed as part of the permanent record. If the act is not admitted to then a failing grade F will be posted and a letter to the Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs will be written recommending disciplinary action up to and including dismissal from the university. Please note the university catalogue for the policy statement on cheating and plagiarism. The ability to write clearly and cogently is a skill that lies at the heart of being an educated man or woman.