Plagiarism Policies & Guidelines @ WWU: Home
Resources for students and faculty
WWU Plagiarism Brochure
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Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism.From the Committee on Academic Dishonesty, ACC; approved by the Faculty Senate, WWU, 4.08.02.
Plagiarism Definition
Plagiarism is presenting as one's own in whole or in part the argument, language, creations, conclusions, or scientific data of another without explicit acknowledgement.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Using another person's written or spoken words without complete and proper citation.
- Using information from a Website, CD-ROM or other electronic sources without complete and proper citation.
- Using statistics, graphs, charts and facts without acknowledging their source.
- Submitting a paper purchased from a term-paper service.
- Paraphrasing, which is imitating someone else's argument using other words without acknowledging the source.
- Claiming credit for someone else’s artistic work, such as a drawing, script, musical composition or arrangement.
- Using someone else’s lab report as a source of data or results.
- Using one’s own or substantially similar work, produced in connection with one course, to fulfill a requirement in another course without prior permission. A student may use the same or substantially the same work for assignments in two or more courses only with written permission from the instructors of all the classes involved.
- Submitting the results of a machine translation program as one’s own work.
[from the WWU Academic Honesty Policy and Procedure]
Resources for Students
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WWU Academic Honesty Policy and ProcedureAppendix D of the 2012-2013 University Catalog. Explains the policy, defines academic dishonesty including plagiarism, and details procedures and the appeals process.
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Citation Guides & Style ManualsFrom Western Libraries: Quick guides to the most commonly used citation styles with links to examples of subject specific styles.
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WWU PlagiarismScroll down to "Plagiarism Learning Tools for Students" for an excellent list of links to video tutorials, guidelines, quizzes and more.
Resources for Faculty
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WWU Academic Honesty Policy and ProcedureAppendix D of the 2012-2013 University Catalog. Explains the policy, defines academic dishonesty including plagiarism, and details procedures and the appeals process.
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WWU PlagiarismProvides links to WWU's use of copyrighted materials policy and WWU's plagiarism policy, and to additional resources and to plagiarism learning tools for students.
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WWU Writing Instruction Support (WIS) Program: ResourcesProvides resources for faculty to use in helping explain what plagiarism is to their students and how to prevent it, including resources to help faculty stage or sequence assignments.
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Plagiarism and Anti-PlagiarismPresentation and workshop by Heyward Ehrlich, Dept. of English, Rutgers-Newark. Includes discussion and useful websites.
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Plagiarism.org (Learning Center)"Designed to help educators and students develop a better sense of what plagiarism means in the information age, and to teach the planning, organizational, and citation skills to prevent plagiarism."
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Academic Integrity: A Letter to My StudentsThis letter from Bill Taylor of Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, Illinois, provides an "example of how a faculty member can initiate classroom discussions about the mutual responsibilities of students and faculty with respect to academic integrity".
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