policy on plagiarism

Plagiarism will not be tolerated at any level and will incur an immediate Fail.

Examples of plagiarism are:

i. Including passages from someone else's writing (a book, an article, another essay) without acknowledgement. Any direct quotations must be shown in quotation marks or as an indented paragraph, and acknowledged appropriately.
ii. Summarizing ideas from another person's work without showing the source of these ideas. Even when you are presenting another person's ideas in your own words you should cite a reference which shows where these ideas have originated.
iii. Structuring your essay as a direct copy of the outline of another essay, article or book without acknowledging this.
iv. Using information from the Internet without citing it appropriately.