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Academic Honesty

ACADEMIC HONESTY

Auburn University expects students to pursue their academic work with honesty and integrity.  Violations of this principle may include:

  1. 8.1. The possession, receipt or use of any material or assistance not authorized in the preparation of any essay, laboratory report, examination, or class assignment to be submitted for credit as part of course or to be submitted in fulfillment of a University requirement.  The possession, receipt or use of unauthorized material while an exam or quiz is in progress, or cheating of any other nature, will be a violations of the Code;
  2. 8.2. Knowingly giving assistance to another in such preparation;
  3. 8.3. Selling, giving, lending, or otherwise furnishing to any other person any material that can be shown to contain the questions or answers to any examination scheduled to be given at some subsequent date in any course of study, excluding questions and answers from tests previously administered and returned to a student by the instructor;
  4. 8.4. The submission of themes, essays, term papers, tests, design projects, similar requirements or part thereof that are not the work of the student submitting them.  When direct quotations are used, they should be indicated, and when the ideas of another are incorporated into a paper, they must be appropriately acknowledged.  Almost every student has heard the term “plagiarism.”  Nevertheless, there is a danger of failing to recognize either its full meaning or its seriousness.  In starkest terms, plagiarism is stealing—using the words or ideas of another as if they are one’s own.  If, for example, another person’s complete sentence, syntax, key words, or the specific or unique ideas and information are used, one must give that person credit through proper documentation or recognition, as through the use of footnotes;
  5. 8.5. Altering or attempting to alter an assigned grade on any official University record.  This violation may also be subject to review and action by the Student Disciplinary Committee; and
  6. 8.6. An instructor may delineate in advance other actions he or she considers a violation of the Code.  For example, the teacher may consider it dishonest or unethical to submit the same paper for credit in more than one course unless specific permission has been given in advance.

 
The University Academic Honesty Code may be found in the SGA Code of Laws, Chapter 1200.

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Last updated September 19, 2007