Aggie Honor Code
Plagiarism
Attempting to receive credit for work performed by another, including papers obtained in whole or in part from individuals or other sources. Students are permitted to use the services of a tutor (paid or unpaid), a professional editor, or the University Writing Center to assist them in completing assigned work, unless the instructor explicitly prohibits such assistance. If the student uses such services, the resulting product must be the original work of the student. Purchasing research reports, essays, lab reports, practice sets, or answers to assignments from any person or business are strictly prohibited. Sale of such materials is a violation of both these rules and State law.
Falsification
Changing the measurements in an experiment in a laboratory exercise so as to obtain results more closely conforming to theoretically expected values.
Cheating
Example: Acquiring answers for any assigned work or examination from any unauthorized source. This includes, but is not limited to, using the services of commercial term paper companies, purchasing answer sets to homework from tutoring companies, and obtaining information from students who have previously taken the examination.
Fabrication
Example: Changing information on tests, quizzes, examinations, reports, or any other material that has been graded and resubmitting it as original for the purpose of improving the grade on that material.
Complicity
Example: Collaborating on academic work knowing that the collaboration will not be reported.
Complicity
Example: Conspiring or agreeing with one or more persons to commit, or to attempt to commit, any act of scholastic dishonesty.
Complicity
Example: Distributing test questions or substantive information about the test without the instructor's permission.
Cheating
Example: During an examination, looking at another student's examination or using external aids (for example, books, notes, calculators, conversation with others, or electronic devices) unless specifically allowed in advance by the instructor.
Fabrication
Example: Failing to acknowledge the actual source from which cited information was obtained. For example, a student shall not take a quotation from a book review and then indicate that the quotation was obtained from the book itself.
Plagiarism
Example: Failing to cite the World Wide Web, databases and other electronic resources if they are utilized in any way as resource material in an academic exercise.
Plagiarism
Example: Failing to credit sources used in a work product in an attempt to pass off the work as one's own.
Cheating
Example: Having others conduct research or prepare work without advance authorization from the instructor.
Plagiarism
Example: Intentionally, knowingly, or carelessly presenting the work of another as one's own (i.e., without crediting the author or creator).
Complicity
Example: Knowingly allowing another to copy from one's paper during an examination or test.
Multiple Submissions
Example: Making revisions in a paper or report (including oral presentations) that has been submitted in one class and submitting it for credit in another class without the instructor's permission.
Fabrication
Example: Providing a fabricated document to any University employee in order to obtain an excused absence or to satisfy a course requirement; altering an official document such as a transcript.
Multiple Submissions
Example: Representing group work done in one class as one's own work for the purpose of using it in another class.
Complicity
Example: Signing another's name on an academic exercise or attendance sheet.
Multiple Submissions
Example: Submitting the same work for credit in more than one course without the instructor's permission.
Complicity
Example: Taking an examination or test for another student.
Fabrication
Example: The intentional invention and unauthorized alteration of any information or citation in any academic exercise.
Fabrication
Example: Using "invented" information in any laboratory experiment, report of results or academic exercise. It would be improper, for example, to analyze one sample in an experiment and then "invent" data based on that single experiment for several more required analyses.
Cheating
Example: Collaborating with other students in the completion of assigned work, unless specifically authorized by the instructor teaching the course. It is safe to assume that all assignments are to be completed individually unless the instructor indicates otherwise; however, students who are unsure should seek clarification from their instructors.
Complicity
Intentionally or knowingly helping, or attempting to help, another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
Cheating
Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices or materials in any academic exercise
Fabrication
Making up data or results, and recording or reporting them; submitting fabricated documents.
Falsification
Manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record.
Multiple Submissions
Submitting substantial portions of the same work (including oral reports) for credit more than once without authorization from the instructor of the class for which the student submits the work.
Plagiarism
The appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
Fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, reviewing, or reporting research
What does misconduct in research or scholarship include?
Honest error or honest differences in interpretations or judgements of data
What does misconduct not include?
The inability to authenticate one's work
What is sufficient grounds to initiate academic dishonesty?
