For this reason students must attend class regularly. I will allow four absences throughout the semester. Plagiarism is the presentation, whether innocent or intentional, of another person's work as one's own. Copying or paraphrasing passages from another writer's work without acknowledging the source author is plagiarism. Allowing another writer to write any part of one's own essay is plagiarism.
Plagiarism is a serious academic crime.
Suspected cases of plagiarism are reported to the Vice President of Student Affairs. Disciplinary measures include automatic failure of the course and can lead to expulsion from the university. Many of you are quite proficient with computers, while others of you are only beginning to feel comfortable with computer technology. Moreover, our academic studies vary widely. As we prepare to express our individual scholarship in writing and in the design of our Web pages, we need to work with the fact that each of us will be concentrating on different study goals this term.