Using another person’s idea without giving them proper credit. Stealing someone else’s work and presenting it as your own. Using information from an outside source without citations. Copying and pasting from a source without proper quotation and citation. Turning in a written assignment that someone else completed for you. Using an assignment from a previous class without the teacher’s knowledge. Copying so many words and/or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether it is cited or not. Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.

You can summarize and paraphrase, but no quotes can be used in this course for your submission.

FAU has an Honor Code requiring faculty, staff, TA’s, and students to notify an Instructor when there is reason to believe an academic irregularity, such as plagiarism, is occurring in a course.

SafeAssign compares your writing to every site on the Internet, along with all printed publications in the Library of Congress… in any language.

REMEMBER – ALL WRITING MUST BE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL WORK!