In effect, this means that missing a lab will result in a grade of zero for the lab assignment. Exceptions to this rule against using someone else's data can be made at the discretion of the instructors for reasons of illness or personal emergency. If you must miss a lab for one of these reasons you should, if possible, attend the other lab section that week. Plagiarism Plagiarism is to represent someone else's words or ideas as one's own. In an academic community this intellectual dishonesty is a very serious ethical offense.
Plagiarism includes copying another student's work.
In many labs students work in teams and will collect and interpret data as a group. However, the final report must be written by each student individually. Plagiarism also includes using someone else's ideas without giving them proper credit. In the scientific literature credit is given through the use of a citation. Evolutionary Ecology Chap.