Plagiarism

 

 

First and foremost, cheating and plagiarism is not an option.  Hopefully this handout will help you avoid the situation at all costs.

 

I do hereby resolve to uphold the Honor Code of Radford University by refraining from lying, from the stealing or unauthorized possession of property and from violating the Standards of Student Academic Integrity. 

~ Radford University Honor Code

 

   Cheating—using unauthorized notes, books, calculators, etc; collaborating on lab or computer work without authorization; discussing or acquiring test or exam material before test; copying another student’s work.

 

B.     Fabrication or Falsification—altering or inventing any information or citation in an academic exercise, changing grades, turning in a false excuse for an absence, changing answers on a graded paper and then seeking regrading.

 

C.     Multiple Submission—submitting the same paper for more than one class without the permission of both instructors.  

 

D.     Abuse of Academic Materials—destroying material from the library, destroying another student’s work, hiding resources so others cannot use them.

 

E.      Complicity in Academic Dishonesty—allowing someone to copy from your work, distributing test information before examination, collaborating on work knowing collaboration will not be admitted, taking an exam for another student, signing a false name on an academic exercise.

 

F.      Plagiarism—presenting someone else’s work as your own. (The only exception is when the ideas or information is common knowledge, like the names of leaders of prominent nations, basic laws, etc.)

 

1. Direct Quotation

Original source—“Ardis is excellent at examining the factors contributing to feminist novel’s sub-literary status.” (From Rita S. Kranidis, Rev. of New Women, New Novels: Feminisms and Early Modernism, by Ann Ardis.  Victorian Studies Fall 1992: 81-82.

Student paper—“Ardis is excellent at examining the factors contributing to feminist novel’s sub-literary status.”

 

2. Paraphrase

Original source—“Ardis is excellent at examining the factors contributing to feminist novels’ sub-literary status.” (From Rita S. Kranidis, Rev. of New Women, New Novels: Feminisms and Early Modernism, by Ann Ardis.  Victorian Studies Fall 1992: 81-82.

 

Student paper—Ardis is really good at determining the things that contribute to feminist novels’ lower canonical status.

Information on the honor code and violations of the honor code are adapted from the

2000-2001 Radford University Student Handbook,

which is available from the Dean of Student’s Office in Walker Hall.

  Handout created by Myra Combs for the Radford University Writing Center

                    Works cited:

Hand out taken from Radford University Writing Center

Under operation of Ann Moser