Academic honesty guidelines

The internet has made it much easier to "borrow" materials from other sources. The following guidelines are to remind you that submitting other people's work as your own is not acceptable, and will be handled in the most severe and unforgiving way!

You are required to abide by all academic honesty rules and guidelines:

1. All work you are submitting must be your own, unless you have gotten explicit permission to collaborate with other students.
2. Any material you submit that you have acquired from any other source(s) (including, but not limited to, a book, journal, magazine, Web site, or another person) must be properly quoted and credited with precise references (see next item). However, be aware that if your work has a significant proportion "quoted" from other sources, it will not meet academic honesty rules even if you mark all quoted materials and provide their sources. In other words, copying a large portion of your work is NOT OK, even if you disclose it.

3. Each program, paper, or any other assignment submitted must include the statement:

   "This is entirely my own work, except as disclosed in the documentation. I gave help to the following persons:

   Signed _____________ ". For electronic submission, you should type your name instead of a handwritten signature. By submitting your work and this statement, you are affirming its truth.

   General disclosure details are described in the previous item. Specifically, if you have received help from somebody, you must acknowledge it in the documentation, function by function; if you provide help, you MAY NOT show your code to the person you are helping, nor may that person ask to see your code. Software and tools designed to compare documents and programs for similarities will be used routinely, both on current submissions and submissions from previous semesters. Code sharing -- better known as CHEATING -- will be severely punished whenever discovered (see details in the next item).

4. Any violation of any of these rules will result in any or all of the following:
   • a "0" grade for the assignment in question; and/or
   • an "F" grade in the course; and/or
   • disciplinary action according to University rules and regulations.

NOTE: These guidelines are supplementary to standing University Academic Honesty policies, rules, regulations, and guideline, and are not meant to replace them. In case of a conflict or contradiction with the University's rules and policies, the rules of the University will override the guidelines presented in this documents. In all other cases, these guidelines will be enforced.