MLA+Refresher

[|Purdue OWL Citing Sources] [|Paraphrasing MLA]



__//**The Why**//__ ACADEMIC DISHONESTY Please note that an essay or assignment may receive a passing grade initially but receive a failing grade later if I discover that it contains work that is not your own. If you have any questions about these matters, be sure to discuss them with me.
 * 1) Two kinds of **plagiarism** exist: 1) intentional (the representation of the ideas or words of another as your own); and 2) accidental (an error in citing a source properly). **Both are inappropriate.** Accidental plagiarism will affect your grade severely; intentional plagiarism will result in a grade of “zero” on the essay. Students who willfully violate this principle will fail the assignment and may be asked to drop the course. Willful violation of this principle includes the following:
 * Submitting another student’s essay or one that is essentially the same as another student’s essay as your own. Both students will fail the assignment and may fail the course.
 * Submitting an essay that you have procured online or from a commercial supplier of essays.
 * Incorporating material from sources—data, analysis, and organization—without providing appropriate documentation.
 * Fabricating sources or information.
 * 1) **Cheating:** means getting unauthorized help on an assignment, quiz, or examination. Obtaining exam questions illegally before an exam, or tampering with an exam after it has been corrected (Davis).
 * 2) **Facilitating:** intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another (to cheat) (Pavela).
 * 3) **Misrepresentation:** providing false information to an instructor concerning an academic exercise (Keith-Spiegel).
 * 4) **Sabotage:** consists of actions that prevent others from completing their work (Keith-Spiegel).