Such thefts give the thief an unfair advantage in the course and impose a significant, unnecessary cost on the University. Please report academic dishonesty to me, and anonymity will be protected if requested. If I believe academic dishonesty has occurred, I will submit an accusation with supporting evidence to the Academic Judiciary Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences and recommend imposition of an F in the course . Accused students will be informed after the report has been submitted. There are no mitigating circumstances for academic dishonesty.
Plagiarism is misrepresentation of another person's writing as one's own.
It also includes incorporating from published or unpublished sources one or more sentences, whether they are intact or slightly modified, whether the sentences are consecutive or scattered among sentences you have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 yourself. It even includes incorporating pieces of sentences written by other authors in your own sentences. The reason to prohibit plagiarism is that you are expected to learn about a topic and discuss the topic in your own words. Similarly, a paper consisting of long passages in quotation marks with literature citations is not plagiarism, but it does not reflect your learning and will be graded accordingly. If I believe plagiarism has occurred on a paper, I will report it to the Academic Judiciary Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences.