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Please Do Not Cheat Yourself

Modified from Professor Prothero's Page
 

Many students are unfamiliar with what is considered cheating.  Claiming something for your own that you took from someone or somewhere else is what I call cheating.  Copying from the Internet, copying from a friend, or copying from a book, without giving the original source credit, is cheating.

Why risk it?

Examples of cheating:

  1. Copying homework answers from someone else
  2. Cutting and pasting from internet sources, without referencing them.
  3. Submitting, for grade, any work that is not your own.

It can be challenging to avoid using the same words and changing prepositions is not enough.


Here are some hints to make it easier to extract information from others without cheating:

  1. Read and make notes on main points or main items of information. Don’t use whole sentences.
  2. Once you have enough notes, put them away for a few hours. The idea is to forget the original source’s prose while retaining the essence of the information.
  3. Write from your notes.
  4. Quotes from other sources can be useful, but reference them if you use them verbatim (exactly).
Sometimes you will want to quote a source. When you do this, set the text off as a complete paragraph and provide a reference.

In group work, you can apply the same principles. In this class, the extent of group work will be to gather information in lab or working on projects. Writing assignments are done individually. Presentations will be from “bullets,” rather than written papers so it should be easy to use your own words.

I sincerely hope that this paragraph is never applies to you!

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