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POLICIES 61 POLICIES AND PROCEDURES POLICIES Academic Honesty Academic honesty is of utmost importance to Howard Community College (HCC). Broadly, academic honesty means incorporating one's own thoughts and materials in all academic activities (e.g., papers, projects, lab reports). A violation of academic honesty involves misrepresentation, the submission of materials for evaluation that are not the student's own, or fulfillment of an academic exercise that does not result from individual effort or intellectual production. Examples of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to: unauthorized use or copying of materials, unauthorized assistance with assignments, unauthorized use of devices or tools, unauthorized prior knowledge of the contents of assessment instruments, such as exams, quizzes, or surveys, and falsification or fabrication of information. Policy and procedures related to academic honesty are communicated through the college catalog, schedules of classes, course outlines, and faculty and student handbooks. At a minimum, all catalogs, schedules of classes, and syllabi will contain the following statement: "Academic honesty, as defined in the Student Handbook, is expected of all students." To preserve the value of educational endeavors at HCC, faculty and students will exhibit academic honesty through the following core values: • Integrity: doing quality work that reflects one's best effort, honesty, and originality; • Respect: giving credit to those who assist in educational endeavors; and • Excellence: demonstrating a high standard of ethical behavior. HCC maintains the following expectations for each student. Students will: • submit work that represents the individual's own achievements, investigations, and study; • craft original work, contribute fairly to a group product, and acknowledge collaborators, even in collaborative learning opportunities; and • present data that is true to the student's own research, laboratory results, observations, and investigations, when reporting investigated results. Students are expected to give full credit for the borrowing of others' words or ideas. Intentional or unintentional use of another's words or ideas without giving credit constitutes plagiarism. There are four common forms of plagiarism: • duplication of an author's words without quotation marks and accurate references or footnotes; • duplication of an author's words or phrases with footnotes or accurate references, but without quotation marks; • use of an author's ideas in paraphrase without accurate references or footnotes; or • submission of a paper in which exact words are merely rearranged even though footnoted. Every student is expected to submit work for a course or for any other academic purpose that has been done solely for that course or for that purpose.