What is academic dishonesty?
   Academic dishonesty, or plagiarism, is using other people’s words or ideas without acknowledging the source of information. This can be done deliberately for personal gain or it can be unintentional.
 

Why it occurs:

• Lack of understanding of the meaning of plagiarism
  
• Information overload
  
• Poor management skills
  
• Fear of inadequacy and low grades
  
• Lack of knowledge on citation conventions
  
• Poorly developed note-taking and summarizing skills
  

Forms of academic dishonesty:

• Buying an essay from a research service, an online site, or another student
  
• Handing in another person’s work without that person’s knowledge
  
• Copying an entire source and presenting it as your own
  
• Cutting and pasting sections from a source and presenting them as your own
  
• Paraphrasing sections from a source and presenting them as your own
  
• Making up a fake citation
  

Penalty for academic dishonesty may result in:

• A mark of zero and no chance for a rewrite
  
• A mark of zero and the possibility of a rewrite for a reduced percentage of the original mark
  
• A penalty to be determined by the department in consultation with the Principal
  
• And will result in a permanent record in your student discipline file