Plagiarism
In the academic community, there is variation in how often and to what degree the sources of ideas need to be cited. Faculty members can provide guidelines within academic disciplines. When the work depends upon the contributions of others, students are expected to acknowledge their indebtedness to them.
Plagiarism is a special form of academic dishonesty that involves the failure to acknowledge the source of ideas or portray someone else's work as one's own. Academic integrity requires that a student acknowledge ideas and expressions borrowed from others. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Looking at or copying another student’s work on an assignment (e.g., written work, term paper, workbook);
- Unauthorized accessing and/or copying another person’s computer file(s);
- Submitting written work obtained from commercial sources (e.g., on-line term papers) or submitting work based upon information from such sources;
- Submitting work prepared by another person whether for money or favor;
- Unacknowledged quotation of a published work; or
- Using any Artificial Intelligence (AI) language processing tool(s) to create coursework, unless clearly permitted in assignment guidelines. The MVNU-authorized AI detection tool will be used to detect coursework that is AI generated.