Academic Integrity
Policy

All students are expected to submit assignments written in their own words.

• If using a website or AI to research information, you MUST paraphrase and give credit to the original author by citing your source correctly.

• If using grammar checking websites, make sure the website is NOT rewriting your assignment and that your work remains original.

• Cite your sources using MLA Format.

• Plagiarism (see below)

• Cheating: To influence or lead by deceit, trick, or artifice. To practice fraud or trickery, to violate rules dishonestly. Some

examples are, but not limited to the following:

1. Providing questions/answers/ work to another student.

2. Receiving questions/answers/work from another student.

• Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to complete assignments inappropriately and claiming it is your own work without citing or referencing.

• Using translation programs or software to copy materials from multilingual websites and represent it as your own work.

To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. To use (another’s production) without

crediting the source. Some examples include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Copying and pasting a report from the Internet and representing it as your own work.

2. Changing a few words in information found online and submitting it as your own work.