Judicial in University

In looking at best practices that deter plagiarism, cheating, and lying we have to look at why someone might participate in such acts. Normally students lack preparation, lack knowledge of subject, or lack the effort in wanting to be involved in the project. This paper will look at plagiarism and how it is defined at Indiana University, how cheating is defined at California Polytech Institute, and how lying is defined at Loyola College in Maryland. This paper will also look at Jackson State University’s Student Handbook concerning academic dishonesty, university’s honor code and penalties involved in academic dishonesty.

According to the Indiana University Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct (2005) indicates that students may be disciplined for several different kinds of academic misconduct. These include cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, interference and violation of course rules.

In particular the code states:

Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else’s work, including the work of other students, as one’s own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge. What is considered “common knowledge” may differ from course to course.

A. A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas, opinions, theories, formulas, graphies, or pictures of another person without acknowledgement.

B. A student must give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge as indebtedness whenever:

1. Directly quoting another person’s actual words, whether oral or written;

2. Using another person’s ideas, opinions, or theories;

3. Paraphrasing the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of others, whether oral or written;

4. Borrowing facts, statistics, or illustrative material; or

5. Offering materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections without acknowledgment.

According to the Jackson State University’s student handbook on p. 30 plagiarism includes:

• Directly quoting the words of others without using quotation marks or indented format to identify them.

• Using sources of information (published or unpublished) without identifying them

• Paraphrasing materials or ideas of others without identifying the sources.