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60 POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Academic Honesty Academic honesty is critical at Howard Community College (HCC). Broadly, academic honesty means incorporating one's own thoughts and materials in all academic activities (e.g., assessments, 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 collaboration, unauthorized use of devices or tools, unauthorized prior knowledge of the contents of assessment instruments, such as exams, quizzes, or surveys, cheating on exams or quizzes, submitting fraudulent documents, and falsification or fabrication of information. Policy and procedures related to academic honesty are communicated through the college catalog, schedule of classes, 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 and contributing fairly to a group product; • 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 and acknowledge collaborators, even in collaborative learning opportunities; and • present data that is a result of 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, ideas, or other works. Intentional or unintentional use of another's words, ideas, or other works without giving credit constitutes plagiarism. There are four common forms of plagiarism: • duplication of an author's words without accurate citation and documentation; • duplication of an author's words or phrases with accurate citation and documentation, but without proper use of quotation marks or block indentation, as required; • use of an author's ideas in paraphrase without accurate citation and documentation; 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