Academic Honesty

 

            Recent developments in American politics and society underscore the importance of one crucial American value:  Honesty.  It is more important than ever that young adults provide a model of integrity to younger (and older) generations of Americans.  This means that this professor will NOT TOLERATE any form of cheating or dishonesty inside or outside the classroom.  To cheat is to do one or more of the following:

 

• Use other people’s work as your own (except in cases of group collaboration as defined by the professor)

 

• Unauthorized copying of another person’s work

 

• Plagiarism (using a term paper from the internet or lifting passages from texts not written by you)

 

• Improper citation of sources (proper footnotes are REQUIRED on all written work)

 

• Downloading text from the internet and submitting it as your own.

 

For a more specific definition of cheating, see page 45 of the 2008-2009 East Carolina University Undergraduate Catalog.  Further details about plagiarism and a link to a detailed list of procedures in the CLUE BOOK can be accessed online at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/fsonline/customcf/facultymanual/part4/44.htm. Anyone who cheats will be prosecuted according to this East Carolina University code of student conduct.

 

 

 

I, ______________________________________________, acknowledge that I have reviewed this statement on academic honesty, and that I understand the terms outlined here.