Plagiarism   Tags: academic honesty, plagiarism  

As defined by the SIUC Student Conduct Code, acts of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to:

1. Plagiarizing or representing the work of another as one’s own work;

2. Preparing work for another that is to be used as that person’s own work;

3. Cheating by any method or means;

4. Knowingly or willfully falsifying or manufacturing scientific or educational data and
    representing the same to be the result of scientific or scholarly experiment or
    research;

5. Knowingly furnishing false information to a university official relative to academic
    matters;

6. Soliciting, aiding, abetting, concealing, or attempting acts of academic dishonesty.

Plagiarism can be defined as the use of another person's wording, phrasing, ideas, or collection of facts as your own. (Definition from the SIUC Writing Center)

Examples of plagiarism:

1. turning in a essay you found on the internet
2. not putting quotation marks around a quotation
3. copying words or sentences without citing where you got the information
4. making up a source because you couldn't remember where you got the information
5. copying the sentence structure of a source even if you change the words