Learning takes place within an atmosphere of trust and respect. The following behaviors erode academic integrity, and thus create barriers to your ability to learn:
spending less than the time necessary to do an adequate job;
skipping readings or non-graded activities;
clicking through course information without engaging with the ideas.
While these behaviors can affect your grade and your learning experience, they are personal choices. Other behaviors, however, move beyond 'choices' and breach academic rules and regulations, and even laws. These include:
plagiarizing text by copying and pasting from websites or published texts;
re-using an essay or project you already turned in for another class;
copying directly from another student or another source without crediting the source;
buying or copying text from an internet source including AI text generators (Chat GPT, Google Bard, etc.) and Google Translate.
Plagiarism is a form of cheating or fraud - it occurs when a student misrepresents the work of another in their own work. Plagiarism may include using another person’s ideas, sentences, paragraphs, or whole texts without proper acknowledgement.
I will assume your work is original and created for ENG 202 during the Summer 2023 semester. There may be times when collaboration, paraphrasing, and sticking to a template may feel like plagiarism when in fact it is not.
If you are not sure if you are violating the rules, talk to me before turning in the work in question.