academic integrity policy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\nIn addition to the official WCU definition, the resolution includes examples of what may or may not constitute plagiarism. Faculty may include any or all of these definitions, modifications of these definitions, or their own additional definitions in course-level policies. Such additional course-level policies are intended to add transparency and clearly outline expectations for students.<\/span><\/p>\nPlagiarism includes, but is not limited to:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Submitting all or part of another\u2019s work without proper citation or attribution;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- Paraphrasing, summarizing, or adapting another\u2019s work without\u00a0appropriate\u00a0acknowledgment;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- Submitting work produced by another individual,\u00a0human\u00a0or technological systems such as artificial intelligence, or entity as one\u2019s own;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- Collaboration or use of resources explicitly prohibited by the instructor, syllabi document, or assignment instructions\/ rubric, department, university, in part or whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- Reusing one\u2019s own previously\u00a0submitted\u00a0academic work without authorization or disclosure when such reuse misrepresents originality (self-plagiarism);\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- Failing to acknowledge\u00a0sources of\u00a0data, analysis, or substantive intellectual\u00a0assistance\u00a0when such acknowledgment is required by disciplinary standards or assignment instructions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Plagiarism does not\u202finclude:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Minor or unintentional citation or formatting errors that do not materially misrepresent authorship;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- Use of commonly accepted knowledge within a discipline that does not require citation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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