PLAGIARISM

You are responsible for knowing the information listed below. PRINT OUT AND READ THIS PLAGIARISM PAGE. THEN PRINT YOUR NAME AND THE DATE AND SIGN YOUR NAME BELOW IT ON THE SECOND PAGE OF THE PRINTOUT. HAND THIS IN TO ME THE NEXT DAY OF CLASS.

Academic integrity is a legitimate concern for every member of the campus community; all share in upholding the fundamental values of honesty, trust, respect, fairness, responsibility, and professionalism. By choosing to join the UNLV community, students accept the expectations of the Academic Misconduct Policy and are encouraged when faced with choices to always take the ethical path. Students enrolling in UNLV assume the obligation to conduct themselves in a manner compatible with UNLV's function as an educational institution.

Academic dishonesty, including plagiarism -- using the words or ideas of another, from the internet or any other source, without proper citation of the source -- constitutes grounds for failure in this course.

For the Univeristy's policy on misconduct, see the "Student Academic Misconduct Policy" (Approved December 9, 2005) located at http://studentlife.unlv.edu/judicial/misconductPolicy.html

The University requires all members of the University Community to familiarize themselves and to follow copyright and fair use requirements. YOU ARE INDIVIDUALLY AND SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR VIOLATIONS OF COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE LAWS. The University will neither protect nor defend you nor assume any responsibility for employee or student violations of fair use laws. Violations of copyright laws could subject you to federal and state civil penalties and criminal liability as well as disciplinary action under University policies. To help familiarize yourself with copyright and fair use policies, the University encourages you to visit its copyright web page http://www.unlv.edu/committees/copyright/(DO NOT PRINT THESE PAGES)

In accordance with department policy, any plagiarism will be documented and your name also will be reported to the department so they may decide if any further action is required on their part. You also will be reported to the Student Judicial Council; and they may take further action.

Plagiarism happens when a writer presents someone else's words (published or unpublished) or ideas as their own work. Such an act is considered academic misconduct and, as such, seriously undermines the intellectual purpose of any university. Understandably, then, plagiarism is an act that requires severe punishment for the perpetrator. There are many forms of plagiarism; and it is important that, as students, you be familiar with these types, so as to avoid the problem altogether.

1. Fraud: The most frequent type of plagiarism is when someone quotes another person's writing word for word without putting the chosen text in quotation marks or without citing the source from which they obtained the material. For example, this type of plagiarism often occurs when someone copies text directly from Internet sources. In order to avoid this form of plagiarism, make sure you place the quoted material in quotation marks and use one of the standard forms of documentation [e.g., American Psychological Association (APA); Modern Language Association (MLA), etc.]
2. Misappropriation of specific wording: In this type of plagiarism, the writer uses someone else's written text word for word, and even cites the source, but for one reason or another the writer fails to add quotation marks around the quoted material. Since the writer has cited the source from which he obtained the text, he or she has indicated that the ideas as well as the words are from someone else's written work. But that is not enough. In forgetting to put in the quotation marks, the writer has not fully acknowledged that the words are the exact words of another writer. Don't forget the quotation marks.
3. Faulty Paraphrasing: If you do not paraphrase a piece of material properly, you are also committing a type of plagiarism. Paraphrasing is defined as putting a lengthy piece of written material written by another writer into your own words. In order to properly paraphrase a piece of text, you must put it into words that are significantly changed from the original writer's text, but which maintain the same sense that the first writer was trying to convey. Citing your source is not enough to alleviate the problem of this kind of plagiarism. To avoid this form of plagiarism you must either make the text a direct quote, by using the writer's exact words, using quotation marks, and citing the source, or you must make sure you paraphrase properly by changing the original text so completely into your own words that it is clear that, though the sense of it is the same, the words are yours and not the original author's. You also must still make sure that you have cited your source. Misappropriation of facts and ideas
4. When you present arguments, lines of reasoning, or facts that you have learned from someone else's work (published or unpublished) without citing the source, you are also committing plagiarism. Cite the source.