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Plagiarism is a form of cheating because it's stealing another person's ideas. But there's a right way to use Internet sources and other references when you're doing homework or a report. Find out more.

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Universities and other organizations can use a plagiarism detector to check your work. Go to the link below. Copy and paste the following into the detector and answer the two questions on your paper copy:

As their favorite meals, particularly shellfish, are found near the dark ocean floor, walruses use their extremely sensitive whiskers, called mustacial vibrissae, as detection devices.

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The following site deals with the legal issues surrounding plagiarism. Go to the website below, click on "Preventing Plagiarism" and then "Is plagiarism illegal?". Answer the three questions on your paper copy.

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Brief video created by Lawyers.com on the penalties of plagiarizing.

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Larry Bodine explains what plagiarism is and its legal consequences.

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Go to the University of Iowa website below. Scroll down to the section titled: Plagiarism to answer the question.

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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa

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"I pledge to do my own academic work and to excel to the best of my abilities, upholding the IOWA Challenge. I promise not to lie about my academic work, to cheat, or to steal the words or ideas of others, nor will I help fellow students to violate the Code of Academic Honesty."

Honesty is an essential value of our academic community.

You are here to learn, and learning depends upon hard work and academic honesty.

Your instructors set high standards and expect you to do your very best, completing your work honestly.

Any student who registers for courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has, in essence, agreed to the value of learning and thus to the importance of the College's Code of Academic Honesty.
Students who choose not to live up to the Code are asked to leave the College.
Consequences for Academic Misconduct

Academic dishonesty diminishes your education and the classroom experience for other students, undermining the mission of serving all students fairly and equally.

Instructors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) fail any assignment showing evidence of academic dishonesty. Instructors may also fail a student for the course for academic misconduct with prior permission and in consultation with the College.

Instructors report all incidents of academic fraud to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; these reports are shared with other undergraduate colleges at UI.

The College assigns the student additional consequences, listed below, based on the offense and the number of offenses by the student previously reported to the College.

Additional information on being expelled is available here.

For information on the appeal process, please refer to the information below. For appealing an expulsion, please see the above link on being expelled.

First Offense

If found responsible for a first incident of academic misconduct, the student will be assigned to complete an online seminar requiring substantial time (around 18-20 hours) and a fee of $100. The seminar is not offered by UI and the cost of the seminar is not included in UI tuition. The seminar requires essay answers based on readings drawn from current events, literature, historical documents, and other sources designed to help the student better understand the effects of the misconduct. A student may not register for additional UI courses until the student completes the seminar; a "hold" is placed on the registration and is only removed once the student successfully passes this seminar. Each undergraduate college carefully tracks offenses on a shared tracking system, and these reports are shared across colleges. If a student transfers to another UI undergraduate college or is already a member of that college, the associate dean will be notified of the misconduct. The report is kept internally for five years or until the student graduates.

Second Offense

Students with a second offense are placed on disciplinary probation and are suspended by the College, even if the first offense occurred while the student was enrolled in another UI undergraduate college. The suspension is recorded on the student's record during the time of the suspension. When the period of suspension ends, the report is removed from the record but is kept internally in case another offense occurs.

Third Offense

A student is expelled for a third offense from the University of Iowa and from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This is added to the student's permanent record and is visible on the transcript. The student is not allowed to enroll in courses at UI or to graduate from the institution.

Note: At times, the above sanctions are modified or combined based on the particulars of a situation.

Contact Information

All students in CLAS are invited to discuss academic misconduct and its consequences as well as how to appeal a decision made by the College. Please call 319-335-2633 or visit 120 Schaffer Hall and request an appointment with Kathryn Hall about the academic misconduct policy.

Examples of Offenses against the Code of Academic Honesty

The following are examples of offenses against the Code of Academic Honesty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Many of these categories overlap. Offenses are not limited to this list and include other types of cheating, misrepresentation, and dishonesty.

Cheating on Quizzes and Exams

Using notes, books, calculators, phones, photos, computers, web sites, tweets, social media, or other aids during a quiz or an exam when not allowed by the instructor

Talking during a quiz or exam when told by the instructor talking is not permitted

Looking at another student's exam or quiz during the testing period

Continuing to work on a quiz or exam after the instructor has notified students that time for the test has ended

Stealing, reproducing, circulating, or otherwise gaining access to a quiz, exam, or homework materials prior to the time authorized by an instructor

Ignoring the guidelines specified by the instructor for an assignment or for a "take home" test and instead using materials or study aids that the instructor has forbidden

Plagiarism

Using the words, sentences, arguments, rhetorical structures, and ideas of another without proper citation and acknowledgment

Copying data, facts, graphs, computer programs, spreadsheets, images, photos, film/video, or other materials and using them without proper citation or acknowledgment

Copying homework, quiz, or exam answers from an answer key, solution manual, textbook, web site, or other items from another student, thus presenting another's work as your own

Failing to use quotation marks properly or when needed

Failing to give a source for quoted materials

Failing to paraphrase language completely

Failing to give a source for paraphrases

Failing to cite sources correctly and completely

Unauthorized Collaboration

Receiving help with homework, reports, labs, paper, data collection, or other activities when not allowed by the instructor

Accepting credit for a group project without doing your share of the work

Helping others with their homework or other assignments when not allowed by the instructor

Allowing others to view your answers or copy part of your homework, lab, quiz answers, exam answers, or other related work when not permitted to do so by the instructor.

A group doing another student's work on a group project, lab, presentation, report, or other activity while presenting the work as if done by the entire group equally

Willful Misrepresentation

Fabricating quotations

Fabricating sources

Fabricating, dishonestly adjusting, omitting, or otherwise misrepresenting research results and records, including information, data, statistics, research facts, and its analysis

Engaging in selective reporting or omission of conflicting data for deceptive purposes

Altering graded work, then resubmitting it for new grade

Providing false information about reasons for class absences or late work when requesting a make-up quiz or exam or an extension for homework

Submitting the same paper in more than one class without the approval of the instructors involved

Submitting a paper from a previous semester for a current class without the approval from the instructor

Failing to provide required or requested information regarding academic performance or enrollments at previous institutions

Intentionally obstructing or interfering with other students' academic work, or otherwise undertaking activity with the purpose of creating or obtaining an unfair academic advantage over other students' academic work.

Altering documents affecting academic records, such as falsifying information on an official academic document, form, grade report, letter of permission, clinical record, student ID cards, or any other official document.

Providing false information to others about academic performance, leadership activities, or membership in student organizations.

Falsification of information records

Recording hours not actually worked

Submitting an altered or fabricated preceptor evaluation

Altering a score, grade, or schedule change on an academic record.

Forging the signature of an instructor, advisor, dean, or another student without proper authorization

Creating false university, college, or other official correspondences (such as medical documentation)

Facilitating Academic Dishonesty of Others

Writing a paper for another student

Allowing another student to use your past homework assignments, papers, labs, or similar items

Sharing homework with another student when told collaboration is not allowed

Allowing or helping another student to look at your exam or quiz during a test

Sharing with other students your notes, books, calculators, phones, photos, computers, web sites, tweets, social media, or other aids during a quiz or an exam when not allowed by the instructor

Completing another student's exam or quiz by filling in the student's scantron card or other answer sheet or by attending the exam in place of the other student

Providing any materials, information, or assistance to another person with the knowledge or reasonable expectation that such would be used for dishonest purposes

Appeals

All students have the right to file an appeal about a CLAS decision related to academic misconduct. Student rights and responsibilities are also discussed at this related page.

If a student believes that the finding of academic misconduct is in error or the grade assigned by the instructor unjust, the student should first arrange a meeting with the instructor (and/or the instructor's supervisor) and then, if needed, with the head of the department or program to discuss the matter. If a misunderstanding has occurred, it can be clarified by speaking with the instructor first, and thus all students are encouraged to meet with their instructor before pursuing any other appeal process.

If the student is dissatisfied with the result of these meetings, the student should make an appointment to discuss the matter informally with the College. The student may call 319-335-2633 and schedule an appointment with Kathryn Hall to discuss policies related to academic misconduct.

After this meeting, the student will be asked to submit an informal summary of the discussion in writing, requesting a reconsideration of the consequences assigned by the College.

If the student is not satisfied with the result of this informal process, the student may request a formal appeal. The appeal must be sent within 14 business days of the student's receipt of the official email from the College stating the sanction given by the College concerning the academic misconduct. The student should write a letter with a detailed rationale for the appeal. The Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Curriculum will review the case, meeting with the student if so requested.

If the student is not satisfied with the results from this formal appeal, the student may request that the case be reviewed by the Committee to Resolve Student Grievances. The Committee to Resolve Student Grievances is a committee composed of student members. It is constituted when a student requests a hearing to reconsider a finding or penalty pertaining to a student complaint.

If the student is not satisfied with the results of this investigation, the student may then request a review by the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education. The request must be written and should be addressed to Associate Provost Lon Moeller.

Additional information on resources to help students file a complaint, such as the University Ombudsperson or the special steps to take when confronting sexual misconduct, are available at the indicated links.

Students are encouraged to review the UI Code of Student Life for university-wide expectations for student behavior.

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Code of Academic Honesty | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa

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"I pledge to do my own academic work and to excel to the best of my abilities, upholding the IOWA Challenge. I promise not to lie about my academic work, to cheat, or to steal the words or ideas of others, nor will I help fellow students to violate the Code of Academic Honesty."

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Go to Iowa State University's Website below.  Refer to the link near the upper right in red titled: Academic and Research Misconduct and then scroll down to 4.2.1B. Answer the question on your paper copy.

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Academic/Research Misconduct for Faculty/Staff | Student Conduct | Iowa State University

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The following six-steps are a basic outline of what is recommended for faculty members who believe students have engaged in academic or research misconduct. Faculty members who have questions regarding the student disciplinary process and the reporting procedures can refer to these procedures.