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Overview: This policy statement addresses
two parallel concerns.
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All assignments must be in your own words.
The ability to read and analyze material
and create a logical, well-organized answer, paper or oral
presentation is a fundamental objective of the collegiate
experience. Furthermore, it's a skill essential to success
and advancement in your chosen career.
You will lose at least one full grade on
even a correct answer, if you have not used your own words
in all papers, exercises, and submissions. This includes reordering
the author's words and selectively choosing excerpts from the
text or any other source.
2.
Plagiarism is unacceptable academic behavior.
When you use an author’s words
without clear attribution, that is plagiarism. Using 3 or
more of the author's words in sequence is the standard for
using quotes.
plagiarize: to
steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
: use (a created production) without crediting the source : to
commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product
derived from an existing source." --Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary.
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Specifics: You
should not be copying, using quotes from or reordering
textbook phrases when completing textbook exercises.
- If it is essential to quote the author,
set it off with quote marks and note author's last name and
page # in parentheses immediately following [Harrison, page
47]. Be sure to check your work carefully! When in doubt, cite
the source.
- All sources, including your text must be
in a 'Sources' list immediately following the assignment in
which the source was used.
- If your source is from the internet, remember
to include the entire URL where the quote can be found.
- For example, let's imagine that you found
a great article about Target at the Forbes Magazine web site.
When listing your source, you would not simply type www.forbes.com.
You would need to be more specific, and type the entire URL
as well as the author's name and date the source information
was written.
- In the Forbes example
above, you would list your source like this:
1. Kafka, Peter 07-05-05,
http://www.forbes.com/home/digitalentertainment/
2005/07/05/target-digital-music-downloads-cz_pk_0705music.html
When citing the source in the body of your paper, you would
format like this: (Kafka, www.forbes.com)
- Review APA/MLA
Style Guide in PDF form.
Any
student submitting ANY portion of ANY assignment that includes
verbiage taken directly from ANY of the following sources without
appropriate and clear attribution, will receive a zero on the
assignment.
- any written, printed, or oral materials
from electronic or text-based media,
- any assignments from other students [past
or present],
- any specific numbers or statistics, such as
demographics, costs, sales, trends, etc.
- any direct quote from verbal interviews or
mass media sources
- class materials including the textbook or
textbook web site
- Siblings, spouses, friends, roommates, etc.
do not receive special consideration for inappropriate similarities
in their assignments. All assignments are to be individually
completed by each student.
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Consequences: Plagiarism
is wrong for ethical reasons and unacceptable for scholastic reasons.
When we discover ANY plagiarism or inappropriate use of another authors
words in your work, you will not receive credit for the assignment
and you will have no opportunity to resubmit. A second instance of
plagiarism will result in an "F" for the course and we
will not allow the student to take another Fastrack Online course.
If you have any questions, ASK your instructor.
The Fastrack course facilitators will be happy to help you make
sure that your work is free from plagiarism.
Activity of this kind will result in disciplinary
action involving the appropriate authorities on campus. SCC policies
for Academic Misconduct [AR2.3.11] and Student Disciplinary Code
[AR 2.5.2] Article III Prescribed Conduct will be applied. [See SCC
General Catalog and Student Handbook.]
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