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Students should be aware that academic dishonesty (for
example, plagiarism, cheating on an examination, or dishonesty in dealing with
a faculty member or other University official) or the threat of violence or harassment
are particularly serious offenses and will be dealt with severely under Dean’s
Discipline.
Graduate students are expected to exhibit the high level of
personal and academic integrity and honesty required of all members of an
academic community as they engage in scholarly discourse and research.
Scholars draw inspiration from the work done by other
scholars; they argue their claims with reference to others’ work; they extract
evidence from the world or from earlier scholarly works. When a student engages
in these activities, it is vital to credit properly the source of his or her
claims or evidence. To fail to do so would violate one’s scholarly
responsibility.
In practical terms, students must not cheat on examinations,
and deliberate plagiarism is of course prohibited. Plagiarism includes buying,
stealing, borrowing, or otherwise obtaining all or part of a paper (including
obtaining or posting a paper online); hiring someone to write a paper; copying
from or paraphrasing another source without proper citation or falsification of
citations; and building on the ideas of another without citation. Students also
should not submit the same paper to more than one class. This information is adapted from the material published by Purdue University's Online Writing Lab.
Graduate students are responsible for proper citation and
paraphrasing, and must also take special care to avoid even accidental
plagiarism. The best strategy is to use great caution in the handling of ideas
and prose passages: take notes carefully and clearly mark words and ideas not
one’s own. Failure to observe these rules of conduct will result in serious
academic consequences, which can include dismissal from the university.
Students engaging in research must be aware of and follow
university policies regarding intellectual and financial conflicts of interest,
integrity and security in data collection and management, intellectual property
rights and data ownership, and necessary institutional approval for research
with human subjects and animals.
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