Policies Related to Teaching Academic Dishonesty Faculty members are urged to assist students in their understanding of regulations regarding academic dishonesty and its significance to the values of an academic community. Faculty are advised to refer to the Student Handbook in order to have detailed familiarity with the policy as it is communicated to students. Faculty Statement on Academic Dishonesty Plagiarism Plagiarism is the representation of another person's words or ideas as if they were one's own. Put more bluntly, plagiarism is stealing. In the academic community, stealing words or ideas is considered every bit as reprehensible as stealing tangible objects like tape recorders or calculators.
Universities impose stiff penalties on people found guilty of plagiarism.
At IWU plagiarism can result in separation from the University. There are different kinds of plagiarism. A gross example of plagiarism would be submitting in your own name a term paper, report, or diary which was written by someone else or obtained from a commercial agency or on-line service. A common example of plagiarism is a term paper containing some of a student's own prose interlaced with sentences and paragraphs taken from another source such as an encyclopedia. Nor can the charge of plagiarism be avoided by merely changing a few words of the original author or paraphrasing rather than reproducing verbatim the words of the original author.