Examples of plagiarism include:

• Cutting and pasting word-for-word or near word-for-word material from web sites to create a paper
• Downloading an entire paper or article from an Internet site
• Turning in another student’s work as your own
• Copying a paper from a source without proper citation
• Paraphrasing materials from a source without citation
• Copying from a source and then deleting some words, altering grammatical structures, or plugging in one-for-one synonym substitutes
• Receiving too much outside assistance in editing your paper
• Turning in the same paper for two classes without the permission of the instructors
• Providing your completed academic paper to another student who uses it as his/her own