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Overview: This policy statement addresses two parallel concerns.

1. All assignments must be in your own words.

The ability to read and analyze material and create a logical, well-organized answer, paper or oral presentation is a fundamental objective of the collegiate experience. Furthermore, it's a skill essential to success and advancement in your chosen career.

You will lose at least one full grade on even a correct answer, if you have not used your own words in all papers, exercises, and submissions. This includes reordering the author's words and selectively choosing excerpts from the text or any other source.

2. Plagiarism is unacceptable academic behavior.

When you use an author’s words without clear attribution, that is plagiarism. Using 3 or more of the author's words in sequence is the standard for using quotes.

plagiarize: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (a created production) without crediting the source : to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source." --Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.

Specifics: You should not be copying, using quotes from or reordering textbook phrases when completing textbook exercises.

• If it is essential to quote the author, set it off with quote marks and note author's last name and page # in parentheses immediately following [Harrison, page 47]. Be sure to check your work carefully! When in doubt, cite the source.
• All sources, including your text must be in a 'Sources' list immediately following the assignment in which the source was used.
• If your source is from the internet, remember to include the entire URL where the quote can be found.
• For example, let's imagine that you found a great article about Target at the Forbes Magazine web site. When listing your source, you would not simply type www.forbes.com. You would need to be more specific, and type the entire URL as well as the author's name and date the source information was written.
• In the Forbes example above, you would list your source like this:
  1. Kafka, Peter 07-05-05, http://www.forbes.com/home/digitalentertainment/
  2005/07/05/target-digital-music-downloads-cz_pk_0705music.html
  When citing the source in the body of your paper, you would format like this: (Kafka, www.forbes.com)
• Review APA/MLA Style Guide in PDF form.

Any student submitting ANY portion of ANY assignment that includes verbiage taken directly from ANY of the following sources without appropriate and clear attribution, will receive a zero on the assignment.

• any written, printed, or oral materials from electronic or text-based media,
• any assignments from other students [past or present],
• any specific numbers or statistics, such as demographics, costs, sales, trends, etc.
• any direct quote from verbal interviews or mass media sources
• class materials including the textbook or textbook web site
• Siblings, spouses, friends, roommates, etc. do not receive special consideration for inappropriate similarities in their assignments. All assignments are to be individually completed by each student.

Consequences: Plagiarism is wrong for ethical reasons and unacceptable for scholastic reasons. When we discover ANY plagiarism or inappropriate use of another authors words in your work, you will not receive credit for the assignment and you will have no opportunity to resubmit. A second instance of plagiarism will result in an "F" for the course and we will not allow the student to take another Fastrack Online course.

If you have any questions, ASK your instructor. The Fastrack course facilitators will be happy to help you make sure that your work is free from plagiarism.

Activity of this kind will result in disciplinary action involving the appropriate authorities on campus. SCC policies for Academic Misconduct [AR2.3.11] and Student Disciplinary Code [AR 2.5.2] Article III Prescribed Conduct will be applied. [See SCC General Catalog and Student Handbook.]