Any kind of cheating on examinations is academically dishonest, and students participating in such activity will be subject to disciplinary attention. Cheating in this context refers to any effort on the part of a student to seek or to give unauthorized assistance on an examination. Any deliberate disobedience of the rules for a given examination as they are announced by the professor. It is often difficult for a professor, in a given case, to determine decisively whether cheating has taken place or not. There are, however, certain kinds of evidence which justify a professor's suspicion, and these may, at the discretion of the professor, be considered an adequate basis for such a judgment.
Plagiarism means presenting, as one's own, the words, the work, or the opinions of someone else.
It is dishonest because the plagiarists offer as their own, for credit, the language or information or thought for which they deserve no credit. Plagiarism of one type occurs when one uses the exact language of someone else without putting the quoted material in quotation marks and giving its source. Exceptions are very well-known quotations, from the Bible or Shakespeare, for example. A second type of plagiarism is more complex. It occurs when writers present, as their own, the sequence of ideas, the arrangement of material, and pattern of thought of someone else, even though they express it in their own words.