Union College's Academic Integrity Policy
The College's complete statement on Academic Integrity is contained in the 2021- 2022 Student Handbook (pages 18 - 19).
The following is extracted from it:
There is the expectation that students will present as their own work only that which they have done themselves. The College does not tolerate academic dishonesty, including plagiarizing (the act of representing someone else’s ideas as your own) and cheating by any means during a test, an examination or in any work intended to be done independently.
Union College takes violations of academic integrity seriously. Procedures, actions, appeals are outlined in the 2021 - 2022 Student Handbook (pages 18 - 20).
Ideas in words, ideas, pictures, interview, conversations, etc. created by someone else that are presented by you (in any format), need to be documented. Once you take this idea and present it in any medium, be it print, video, audio, etc. you will need to document the source. An exception would be “common knowledge,” meaning something known by most people.
There are usually three ways to present someone else’s original work in your written paper:
More about these strategies can be found at “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing” in Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab.
Interactive Plagiarism Tutorial
This tutorial will help you avoid plagiarism by providing examples that explain how to properly include information from other sources in one’s own scholarly work .