40 ACADEMIC POLICIES Academic Honesty Policy Academic integrity is indispensable to the central objectives of a Wagner College education: the promotion of knowledge and intellectual growth. Breaches of academic integrity are detrimental to the student personally and infringe on the trust essential to the academic enterprise. The Wagner Academic Honesty Committee adjudicates possible policy violations of academic integrity and renders appropriate sanctions, as outlined below. Students are solely responsible for informing themselves about acceptable forms of academic conduct. Lack of knowledge of citation procedures, for example, does not excuse plagiarism. Resources for mastering proper citation methods and related information may be found in the Horrmann Library, and on the library website: http://wagner.libguides.com/citation I. Introduction As a member of the Wagner College community, you are held to the highest standards with regards to academic honesty and integrity. The following guidelines will assist you in understanding what those standards are. Violations of the College’s honesty policy diminish the work of everyone at Wagner College. Open, honest inquiry stands at the foundation of our academic process, and is expected of all students, without exception. Within the following guidelines, you will find many, though not all, examples of possible violations of the College’s academic honesty policy. If in any doubt whatsoever regarding which actions violate the College’s academic honesty policy, ask your instructor for clarification. II. Definitions of Academic Honesty & Integrity Academic honesty is maintained when work submitted for credit represents the student’s own effort. If the professor gives specific permission, collaboration between students or revisions of previous works are also acceptable. Students violate this standard when they submit work for credit that is not original, or attempt to deceive the instructor in some other manner. The two main types of dishonesty are plagiarism and cheating. Plagiarism is presenting as one’s own work, words or ideas of another without proper citations or credits. All work that comes from other sources must be properly acknowledged, and even if the work of others is paraphrased it should be clearly noted. Cheating consists of taking, or providing, or attempting to take or provide, external assistance during an examination. This can include communicating with another student, referring to materials not approved for use during the examination or copying the work of another student. III. Plagiarism When you write a paper for a course, your instructor will set the standards for format, length, and methods of documenting the source material. According to the discipline, there will be different methods for documenting this material. This may include footnotes, endnotes, parenthetical notes, report formats, or traditional research paper formats. It is the responsibility of the student to familiarize themselves with the approach recommend by the instructor. When you submit a paper for credit you are, in effect, claiming it as your own work. This means that you cannot have someone else write, or substantially shape, the work. Similarly, of course, you cannot purchase the paper outright or in part from another person or research service nor can you adapt material written or prepared by another individual. Unless you have the explicit permission of the instructor you may not submit work which you have previously submitted for another class, whether that class was at Wagner College or another institution, even if the second version is a modified version of the first paper. Examples of plagiarism include (but are not limited to):
