Academic Integrity & Plagiarism
Academic Behavior
Academic integrity is the moral/ethical code that governs academic behavior. This includes things such as cheating, maintenance of records, and plagiarism. All of these actions can have seriously negative consequences for your academic experience as well as possibly longer reaching repercussions for your future. Consequences can range from a failed grade to expulsion from the college, depending on the severity of the offense.
The EvCC Student Handbook Links to an external site., the following forms of Academic Misconduct:
- Cheating including, but not limited to, intentional use or attempted use of unauthorized material, information, or study aids, misrepresentation of invention or any information such as falsifying research, inventing or exaggerating data, or listing incorrect or fictitious references.
- Plagiarism including, but not limited to, presenting or submitting another person’s, entity’s, and/or sources’ ideas, words, or other works in an instructional course without assigning proper credit.
- Unauthorized collaboration including, but not limited to, intentionally sharing or working together in an academic exercise when such actions are not approved by the course instructor.
- Academic dishonesty including, but not limited to, presenting or submitting in an instructional course either information that is known to be false (while concealing that falsity) or work that is substantially the same as the previously submitted in another course (without the current instructor’s approval).
More on Plagiarism
Most students are familiar with cheating and its consequences. Many of you may be familiar with the definition of plagiarism: "The illegal practice of taking someone else's ideas, data, findings, the language, illustrative material, images, or writing, and presenting them as if they were your own" (Kennedy, 2006). However, the actual details of what plagiarism is in actual practice can be a bit fuzzy. Watch the video below to become familiar with the separate types of plagiarism that you need to avoid in all your written course communications.
Additional Plagiarism Resources Links to an external site.