Policy
on Plagiarism
Academic honesty is an important principle
to ensure that all authors, including students, are acknowledged for
their original expressions of ideas.
Instructors have a responsibility to
demonstrate to students in their courses the difference in acceptable
and unacceptable use of others’ work.
Students have a responsibility to ask their instructor for
guidance whenever they are uncertain about fair use of someone else’s
work.
Students, in submitting work, certify that
the work is their own original work except that all information
garnered from others whether quoted, summarized, or paraphrased has
been appropriately cited. Dishonesty by failing to
acknowledge the work of others constitutes plagiarism and is a serious offense. Normally, the penalty for
plagiarism is failure in the course. More serious penalties may
also be invoked.*
In cases of plagiarism instructors should
also submit the Student Discipline: Academic Dishonesty Incident
Report Form to the Coordinator of Student Discipline
for tracking or for disciplinary investigation. http://www.csustan.edu/english/dept/AcademicDishonestyIncident.pdf
Instructors should
include the text of the above policy or the URL http://www.csustan.edu/english/dept/plagiarism.html
in their syllabi.
*Title 5,
California Code of Regulations, Section 41301 notes that students may
be “expelled, suspended, placed on probation, or given a lesser
sanction for one or more of the following causes which must be campus
related: 1. Cheating or plagiarism
in connection with an academic program at a campus. . . .”
(see Appendix F of the current CSU, Stanislaus catalog).
Approved
April 6, 2005
Note
to instructors: Since we have adopted a common handbook, Hacker’s
A Writer’s Reference, instructors might present the information on pages 331-340 and
have students complete the brief exercise at http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/ (click on Electronic
Research Exercises).
The results of the students’ performances can be automatically
sent to the instructor. Those
who do not require a handbook could present equivalent information
and still have the students do the exercise.