Academic Integrity
The University is an academic community in which commitment to the principles of truth and academic honesty is essential. The Code of Academic Integrity prohibits students from committing the following acts of academic dishonesty:
- Cheating: intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise.
- Fabrication: intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in any academic exercise.
- Facilitating academic dishonesty: intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another violate any provision of the Academic Code.
- Plagiarism: intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise.
ANY PLAGIARISM will result in a mark of zero for the assignment/exam. As a student, you are expected to submit original work and give credit to other people’s ideas and writing. Plagiarism includes copying other people’s ideas or writing without citing the source. If a quotation is used, it must be identified as a quotation and correctly cited. Plagiarism is considered a very serious issue and can affect your career.
Please make sure you know UBC’s policies on plagiarism and read tips for avoiding it (see http://help.library.ubc.ca/planning-your-research/academic-integrity-plagiarism/ ).
For additional guidance on what plagiarism is and how to avoid it, please see:
UBC Calendar: http://www.calendar.ubc.ca/Vancouver/index.cfm?tree=3,54,111,959
UBC Learning Commons, Avoiding Plagiarism: http://learningcommons.ubc.ca/resource-guides/avoiding-plagiarism/
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