Academic Misconduct Reporting Form

Plagiarism: Knowingly copying another's work or ideas and calling them one's own or not giving proper credit or citation. This includes but is not limited to reading or hearing another's work or ideas and using them as one's own, quoting, paraphrasing, or condensing another's work without giving proper credit, purchasing or receiving another's work and using, handling, or submitting it as one's own work. Cheating: Intentional, unauthorized use of any study aids, equipment, or another's work during an academic exercise. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized use of notes, study aids, electronic or other equipment during an examination, copying or looking at another individual's examination, taking or passing information to another individual during an examination, taking an examination for another individual, allowing another individual to take one's examination, stealing examinations. Cheating also includes unauthorized collaboration. All graded academic exercises are expected to be performed on an individual basis unless otherwise stated by the instructor. An academic exercise may not be submitted by a student for course credit in more than one course without the permission of all instructors. Contract Cheating: The outsourcing of student work to third parties (Lancasterand Clarke, 2016, p.39). Third parties may include but are not limited to: family and friends, academic custom writing sites, legitimate learning sites (e.g., file sharing, discussion, and micro-tutoring sites), legitimate non-learning sites (e.g., freelancing sites and online audio sites), paid exam takers, and pre-written essay banks (Ellis, Zucker, and Randall, 2018, p.2). Most online help sites have honor 20 codes and/or copyright policies. Students should ask their professors whether or not they (students) are authorized to use online help sites. Students should only upload content to these websites that they have made or are otherwise authorized to post. Fabrication: Intentional and/or unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation during an academic exercise. This includes but is not limited to changing or adding an answer on an examination and resubmitting it to change the grade, inventing data for a laboratory exercise or report. Facilitating Academic Misconduct: Knowingly or recklessly allowing or helping another individual to plagiarize, cheat, or fabricate information.