Appropriate Classroom Behavior
As learning in this course is a community endeavor, respect for one another is required. This includes freedom from harassment and dishonesty, respect for others’ personal space, and respect for others’ appropriate questions and comments in the quest for learning. Additionally, it includes a freedom from unacceptable distractions i.e., talking, cell phones, pagers, etc. If you have any of these items or if you find alternative means of distracting classmates, you will be required to leave the class.
All work submitted in this course must be your own and be written exclusively for this course. The use of sources (ideas, quotations, paraphrases) must be properly documented. “Plagiarism” means the intentional unacknowledged use or incorporation of any other person’s work in, or as a basis for, one’s own work offered for academic consideration or credit or for public presentation. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, representing as one’s own, without attribution, any other individual’s words, phrasing, ideas, sequence of ideas, information or any other mode or content of expression. For example, you are engaging in plagiarism if you turn in a paper purchased from a commercial website, turn in the work of another student as your own, or fail to attribute quotations or ideas to the original author of the work. If you include verbatim text in your coursework, you must quote the original source. You must put the text in quotes and give the specific citation for the questions. Consider the following hypothetical response as an example.
Sociology and social psychology are distinct disciplines. Sociologists “study groups, from small to very large” (Myers, 2003, p. 6). Social psychologists, by contrast, “study average individuals - how one person at a time thinks about others, is influenced by them, relates to them” (Myers, 2003, p. 6).
Ignorance is not an excuse; understanding and avoiding plagiarism is your responsibility. Please ask me if you have any questions about how to properly cite sources. Cheating or plagiarism is an act of academic dishonesty and a violation of University Standards and the Student Code of Conduct. It will result in a grade of zero for the assignment. It may further result in failure of the course and a hearing before the Dean of Students; therefore, it could have serious implications for your academic career (e.g., academic probation, suspension, or expulsion). Please refer to the following website for a complete listing of infringements that constitute cheating: http://documents.weber.edu/ppm/6-22.htm
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