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Truth. Trust. Accuracy. These are essential to a journalist's craft and reputation. Do your own work. Be original. No copying. No fiction writing in this course. Never make things up. Never use other people's words without quotation marks and the speaker's (or writer's) name attached. The proper use of citations of ALL material from other sources is required. This is very simple. The penalties:
When you copy and paste from a Web page, you are committing plagiarism -- unless you place the full block of text within quotation marks and provide a complete and correct attribution for the copied material. A "rewrite" of another person's text (or Web page) is plagiarism. You must either quote it, or else write entirely from your own mind, your own thoughts, your own words -- without copying from something else. Any and all uses of another person's words must be attributed. The consequences are not negotiable. If you have any questions about what plagiarism is, or what academic dishonesty is, it is your responsibility to ask me -- in advance of handing in any questionable work. I take both academic honesty and journalistic credibility very seriously, and I expect all students in our college to do the same. |
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