A
Google search on “plagiarism or ‘academic
honesty’” uncovers scandalous behavior
on college campuses, in corporate boardrooms, in
the media, even in religious institutions. Take a
look.
You
don’t think of your friends and classmates,
instructors, employers, religious counselors, or other
pillars of the community as crooks or criminals, and
yet ... if they unfairly use the ideas, words, creative
products or other “intellectual property” of
another person without acknowledging the source
of the information, they may indeed be guilty
of theft.
Even you could commit self-plagiarism if you
recycle a paper that you wrote last year without
getting
prior approval from your current instructor.
If
you rely on the Web for your research, there
are traps that you’ll want to avoid. A
common blunder is the following belief: “If
it doesn’t have a copyright notice, it’s
not copyrighted.”
Read
carefully the English Department’s Statement of Plagiarism. Our faculty have compelling
opinions
about why academic integrity is important now and later
in life. Let’s listen to two of them:
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