Please use examples and explanations from your paper and class discussion to annotate, clarify, or expand on the plagiarism policy at CSM. Which terms are unclear? Could any of the examples be updated with new details to reflect your argument in your paper?
"Cheating" refers to unauthorized help on an assignment, quiz, or examination as follows:
(1) a student must not receive from any other student or give to any other student any information, answers, or help during an exam;
(2) a student must not use unauthorized sources for answers during an exam, must not take notes or books to the exam when such aids are forbidden, and must not refer to any book or notes while taking the exam unless the instructor indicates it is an "open book" exam; and
(3) a student must not obtain exam questions illegally before an exam or tamper with an exam after it has been corrected.
"Plagiarism" means submitting work that is someone else's as one's own.
For example, copying material from a book or other source without acknowledging that the words or ideas are someone else's, and not one's own, is plagiarism.
If a student copies an author's words exactly, he or she should treat the passage as a direct quotation and supply the appropriate citation.
If someone else's ideas are used, even if it is paraphrased, appropriate credit should be given.
Lastly, a student commits plagiarism when a term paper is purchased and/or submitted which he or she did not write.