Effective managers and leaders are also effective communicators. Written communication is an important element of the total communication process. The Graduate School recognizes and expects exemplary writing to be the norm for course work. Careful attention should be given to source citations, proper listing of references, the use of footnotes, and the presentation of tables and graphs. Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional presentation of another person's idea or product as one's own.
Students can avoid unintentional plagiarism by carefully accepted scholarly practices.
Notes taken for papers and research projects should accurately record sources of material to be cited, quoted, paraphrased, or summarized, and papers should acknowledge these sources in footnotes. General Online Netiquette Guidelines Be polite, please. Do not write anything you would be embarrassed to have printed in a newspaper. Computer messages are not private. Keep in mind that any e-mail message you write can and may be forwarded to others.