
Plagiarism is not only unethical but it is also detrimental to student learning and goes counter to the department culture. Plagiarism is presenting, as one's own, the code, ideas, words, or products of another person, for academic evaluation, without proper acknowledgment. According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward. Please refer to SCSU Academic Misconduct, SCSU Student Handbook and ACM's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
Copying Course Evaluation Materials and Solutions (CEMS) including code, programs or parts of a program, information, exam, assignment, project, term paper, laboratory report sentences, phrases, paragraphs, tables, figures, images, sound, videos or data directly or in slightly modified form from a book, article, websites, another person’s work, or other academic source without instructor’s permission;
For example:
As stated above, you are responsible for protecting your work. Take care of the materials you develop. The following table shows the activities that you are allowed / not allowed to do to protect your work:
Activity |
Project partner(s) |
Instructor |
PAL (Peer Academic Leader) |
Classmates |
Other |
Discuss Concepts |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Share CEMS with |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
View CEMS from |
Yes |
N/A |
No |
No |
No |
Copy CEMS from |
No |
N/A |
No |
No |
No |
If you are not sure whether the materials you prepare to submit are appropriate, please see the following restrictions or consult with your instructor before submission.
Your work should be yours and yours alone.
A faculty can employ any computational software and/or manual inspection to conclude that one or more students have plagiarized. Once such a case of plagiarism is detected, the faculty shall notify the student(s) of the plagiarism case in writing according to the SCSU Guidelines for addressing students misconduct. The faculty is NOT obligated to tell the student how the case was detected since it gives away the detection technique and might make future plagiarisms harder to be detected.
According to the SCSU Guidelines for addressing students misconduct, incidents of academic misconduct can range in severity; Instructors determine sanctions according to their professional judgment of the severity of misconduct. At the discretion of the Instructor, this determination may be made in consultation with the Office of Student Conduct (e.g., regarding patterns of past academic misconduct by an individual student and clarification of the Hearing and Appeals processes). Academic sanctions imposed by the instructor shall be related to performance in the course and be commensurate with the severity of misconduct and may include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:
SCSU Guidelines for Addressing Academic Misconduct
A student accused of academic dishonesty has the right to appeal an instructor’s allegations.
The CS department will follow the policies and guidelines developed by the SCSU Faculty Senate.