Failing to cite others' work properly in your own projects, even unintentionally, can have serious consequences! The mildest consequences for plagiarizing in a university setting range from receiving an 'F' on the assignment to a failing grade in the course; the most serious consequences can involve one being expelled from school.
A couple of basic points to remember:
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Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) site is a fairly comprehensive resource for the Modern Language Association's (MLA) style and formatting rules.
Use the left side bar on OWL's page to navigate to the style or other help that you need.
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Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) site is a fairly comprehensive resource for the American Psychological Association (APA) style and formatting rules.
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Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) site is a fairly comprehensive resource for The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) style and formatting rules.
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Violations of the Student Academic Integrity Policy
University of Maine System Academic Integrity Policy
Academic integrity means not lying, cheating, or stealing. To cheat on an examination, to steal words or ideas of another, or to falsify the results of one’s research corrupts the essential process by which knowledge is advanced. Cheating, plagiarism, fabrication of data, giving or receiving unauthorized help on examinations, and other acts of academic dishonesty are contrary to the academic purposes for which the University exists.
Violations of academic integrity include any actions that attempt to promote or enhance the academic standing of any student by dishonest means. Academic integrity means that one’s work is the product of one’s own effort, and that one neither receives nor gives unauthorized assistance in any assignment. Because advanced academic work depends on the sharing of information and ideas, academic integrity at the college level includes rigorous adherence to the conventions for acknowledging one’s use of the words and ideas of other people.
Put plainly: academic honesty is very important. It is dishonest to cheat on exams, to copy term papers or to submit papers written by another person, to fabricate experimental results, or to copy parts of books, articles, or websites into your own papers without putting the copied material in quotation marks and clearly indicating its source.
Student academic integrity policy—University of Maine at Augusta. (n.d.). Compliance. Retrieved March 5, 2021, from https://www.uma.edu/compliance/handbook/academic-integrity/
University of Maine System - Student Conduct Code
A. Academic Misconduct
1. Cheating: The act or attempted act of deception by which a student seeks to misrepresent that he/she has mastered information on an academic exercise that he/she has not mastered.
2. Fabrication: The use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings in an academic exercise.
3. Plagiarism: The submission of another’s work as one’s own, without adequate attribution.
4. Facilitating Academic Misconduct: Assisting in another person’s academic misconduct.
Student conduct code—University of Maine at Augusta. (n.d.). Compliance. Retrieved March 5, 2021, from https://www.uma.edu/compliance/handbook/conduct/