Our university’s official statement on plagiarism:
Using someone else’s ideas or phrasing and representing those ideas or
phrasing as our own, either on purpose or through carelessness, is a
serious offense known as plagiarism. “Ideas or phrasing” includes
written or spoken material, of course — from whole papers and
paragraphs to sentences, and, indeed, phrases — but it also includes
statistics, lab results, art work, etc. “Someone else” can mean a
professional source, such as a published writer or critic in a book,
magazine, encyclopedia, or journal; an electronic resource such as
material we discover on the World Wide Web; another student at our
school or anywhere else; a paper-writing “service” (on-line or
otherwise) which offers to sell written papers for a fee. You should
be aware that the university possesses software to detect plagiarism.
Plagiarism will result in an “F” on the assignment and, depending on
the severity of the case, an “F” in the course and disciplinary action
by the university.
For more information, please visit http://abacus.bates.edu/cbb/