plagiarism & citation guidelines

Whenever you take phrases or sentences from an article, you must explicitly note the source. Follow this format:

Duany, Andres, Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth and Speck, Jeff . "Introduction/What is Sprawl, and Why?" in Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: North Point Press, 2000, p 7.

How to Avoid Plagiarism: Standards on How to Paraphrase, Cite, and Quote

Please read carefully all the information posted at this site:
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

Webster's definition of Plagiarism:
1. To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own.
2. To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another).
3. To put forth as original to oneself the ideas or words of another.

Oxford English Dictionary's definition of Plagiarism:
1. the wrongful appropriation or purloining, and publication as one's own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas (literary, artistic, musical, mechanical, etc.) of another.
1820 HAZLITT Lect. Dram. Lit. 257 If an author is once detected in borrowing, he will be suspected of plagiarism ever after.

2. A purloined idea, design, passage, or work.

What the Georgia Tech Honor Code says about Plagiarism
Excerpted from the Academic Honor Code of Georgia Tech.

Section 3. Student Responsibilities

Students are expected to act according to the highest ethical standards.

The immediate objective of an Honor Code is to prevent any students from gaining an unfair advantage over other students through academic misconduct. The following clarification of academic misconduct is taken from Section XIX, Student Conduct Code, of the Rules and Regulations section of the Georgia Institute of Technology General Catalog :

Academic misconduct is any act that does or could improperly distort student grades or other student academic records. Such acts include but need not be limited to the following:

Possessing, using or exchanging improperly acquired written or verbal information in the preparation of any essay, laboratory report, examination, or other assignment included in an academic course;
Substitution for, or unauthorized collaboration with, a student in the commission of academic requirements;
Submission of material that is wholly or substantially identical to that created or published by another person or persons, without adequate credit notations indicating authorship (plagiarism);
False claims of performance or work that has been submitted by the claimant;
Alteration or insertion of any academic grade or rating so as to obtain unearned academic credit;
Deliberate falsification of a written or verbal statement of fact to a member of the faculty so as to obtain unearned academic credit;
Forgery, alteration or misuse of any institute document relating to the academic status of the student.

While these acts constitute assured instances of academic misconduct, other acts of academic misconduct may be defined by the professor.

Students must sign the Honor Agreement affirming their commitment to uphold the Honor Code before becoming a part of the Georgia Tech community. The Honor Agreement may reappear on exams and other assignments to remind students of their responsibilities under the Georgia Institute of Technology Academic Honor Code.

For the Full Honor Code, go to http://www.deanofstudents.gatech.edu/Honor

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