“NO TOLERANCE” POLICY ON CHEATING
Dr. Lovett’s Classes
According to policies set by the University, the professor may award a grade of “F” for the test, paper, or exercise when he determines a student has cheated. The professor also may award a grade of “F” for the entire course because of the cheating. Upon confirming Internet cheating, other forms of cheating, and especially plagiarism, the instructor will award the “F” grade for the assignment or the entire course, and make a written report to the University, whereas the process may include expulsion from the University or a prohibition to graduate.
Cheating includes books, hidden papers, body writings, search of web sites to complete a test, telephone messages, looking on another person’s test paper, and any other unauthorized source to complete an examination (test). Cheating also includes having another person to do your paper or engage an impersonator to take the test, taking information from the Internet and other electronic sources to complete a term paper, book review, or any class exercise, and claiming that the results are your own (plagiarism).
To plagiarize is to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own without crediting the source. Internet cheating includes the purchase of term papers, the downloading of term papers and projects (lesson plans) for free, and the use of entire sections of papers that are plagiarized.
No Tolerance for cheating of any kind in this class. Your work must be your own. The instructor may use several available computer software and internet services to electronically review the text and compare the student’s paper to any electronic sources, papers already completed by former students and others, and determine any unauthorized and plagiarized sources used in the paper, project, etc.
A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker is available to you in the University Bookstore and other stores to illustrate and teach you how to properly cite a research source as well as points on clarity, grammar, punctuation and mechanics, style sheets (MLA, APA, Chicago), and usage/grammatical terms. Thus, ignorance of the rules is not an acceptable excuse.
Please acknowledge this classroom policy and your agreement to abide by it as a condition to remain in the course. You may consult the University Student Handbook for further information on student behavior, process, and procedures for penalties and appeals.