Academic dishonesty occurs in the following forms: (1) plagiarism, (2) cheating on examinations, (3) unauthorized collaboration, (4) falsification, and (5) multiple submissions.

Plagiarism is presenting another person's work as one's own. Plagiarism includes any paraphrasing or summarizing of the works of another person without acknowledgement, including the submitting of another student's work as one's own. Plagiarism frequently involves a failure to acknowledge in the text, notes, or footnotes the quotation of the paragraphs, sentences, or even a few phrases written or spoken by someone else. The submission of research or completed papers or projects by someone else is plagiarism, as is the unacknowledged use of research sources gathered by someone else when that use is specifically forbidden by the faculty member. Failure to indicate the extent and nature of one's reliance on other sources is also a form of plagiarism. Finally, there may be forms of plagiarism that are unique to an individual discipline or course, examples of which should be provided in advanced by the faculty member. The student is responsible for understanding the legitimate use of sources, the appropriate ways of acknowledging academic, scholarly or creative indebtedness, and the consequences of violating this responsibility.

Our Particular Interest in Academic Honesty

Being a scholar-teacher means participating in an ongoing discussion with other scholar-teachers about the important issues in our field--issues in second language acquisition and second language teaching with all of the possible sub-fields suggested by those two over-arching disciplinary areas. To be a scholar-teacher means to know about other people's work and to acknowledge our intellectual debts to our colleagues. We must also learn to use the conventions selected by our profession for acknowledging those debts--and for indicating the extent of our knowledge of prior work.