• Students must do their own original work for this course and unless otherwise approved must do that work during the course.
• Academic scholarship requires that you give appropriate credit to the ideas, information, and words of others and that you distinguish clearly between your own opinions, explanations, and interpretations and the ideas and expression you learned from others. One way you can give credit to yourself for your own thoughts and expression is to give appropriate credit to others for theirs.
• Students are responsible for finding out the accepted way to give credit and document the ideas, images, and words from all contributors and sources (my Documentation Guide, our textbook, the Writing Center, a current college handbook, and I will be glad to help you).
  • Within the body of every composition, you must always clearly indicate the beginning, the end, and the author/editor/source of all parpahrases, summaries, and quotations.
  • For formal papers and projects in our class, current MLA formats must be used within a paper or project and for the Works Cited listing at the end, giving credit to graphics and media as well as print and oral sources. If you use formats other than the designated MLA formats, your documentation is unacceptable.
  • Because documentation methods may vary from discipline to discipline and even from assignment to assignment within a course, find out the expectations are if they are not specified.

• Collaborative work and group activities require complete participation of all members of the group and acknowledgment of the collaboration.
• A separate page of Acknowledgments may be included at the end of any submission to recognize resources whose assistance was valuable but who are not listed elsewhere, for example, a librarian or classmates who helped you develop ideas or resources or who reviewed a draft for you. Acknowledgments traditionally appear in paragraph format rather than lists. If your project has a Works Cited, include the Acknowledgments on a separate page either before or after.
• All compositions for this course except private email are "public," composed for an audience of your classmates and possibly for others. However, they should not be shared with people other than our class without the permission of the author.
• Email to individuals is private correspondence and should not be forwarded without permission from the author/sender.
• I will report to appropriate authorities any information about past or potential harm or danger to any individuals or groups or about any illegal activities brought to my attention.

Cheating or plagiarism, which is the accidental or intentional misrepresentation of another's work as one's own, is unacceptable under any circumstances and will lead to no credit for that assignment or activity and may lead to failure of the course.