Plagiarism Announcement-Reply that you understand to serve as your electronic signature

Class,

Grand Canyon University is committed to academic integrity, and our goal for all written assignments is to have "students producing the most academically rigorous and substantiated work possible" ("GCU Plagiarism Tutorial," 2013). All students must have a solid understanding of what plagiarism is, and how to avoid it.

"Plagiarism is defined as the use of another person's thoughts, ideas, words, quotations, or phrases without showing proper acknowledgment of where the information came from" ("GCU Plagiarism Tutorial," 2013). It is literary theft or what would be considered as the stealing of words of another author and taking credit for them as your own work.

Plagiarism is not tolerated at Grand Canyon University. Please read the Student Handbook to become aware of the consequences associated with plagiarism. This may include, but is not limited to taking a zero on an assignment, failing a course, being suspended, being expelled, or having your degree revoked.

Here are four helpful rules to follow for any and all written assignments:

1) Write your own original work, with your own thoughts, and in your own words.

2) When you use anything from another author or source, you must give proper credit to that author or source by citing within the text and including same on the Reference page at the end of your work. Even if you are using your own words, you must cite your source material (paraphrasing).

3) If you use a quotation from another source (word-for-word, or extremely similar) you must use quotation marks, and then cite the source correctly.

4) Always avoid using long quotes and do not use more than one quote that is more than 40 words in any given paper. Any quote more than 40 words must be formatted as a block quote (Owl at Purdue, 2013).

5) Turn in all Word Document to lopeswrite turnitin to check for similarity and make corrections before submitting your work.

At my discretion, you may resubmit work with a 20% point deduction for issues related to citing and references. Please be aware this is a policy I enforce in my class, but other instructors may not do the same.

To assist you, I have listed some very helpful sites concerning plagiarism below. Please take time to look through them, and consider the material presented.

Please commit yourself to academic integrity throughout your entire educational journey. I will support that strongly.

While the plagiarism tutorial is not mandatory, it would be strongly encouraged to complete. Please review this resource below and let me know if you have any questions.

References

Academic scenarios. (2013). Grand Canyon University. Retrieved fromhttp://www.gcu.edu/Academics/Academic-Integrity/Academic-Integrity-Scenarios.php

Plagiarism quiz (2013). Grand Canyon University. Retrieved fromhttp://www.gcu.edu/Academics/Academic-Integrity/Plagiarism-Quiz.php

Plagiarism tutorial. (2013) Grand Canyon University (2013). Retrieved fromhttp://www.gcu.edu/Academics/Academic-Integrity.php

Policy violation examples (2013). Grand Canyon University. Retrieved fromhttp://www.gcu.edu/Academics/Academic-Integrity/Policy-Violation-Examples.php

Purdue Online Writing Lab (Owl) (2013). In-Text Citations. Retrieved fromhttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/

Resources

Plagiarism Tutorials

http://www.gcu.edu/Academics/Academic-Integrity.php

Student Handbook

http://www.gcu.edu/Documents/upload/Admissions/Spring-2013-GCU-Student-Handbook.pdf

How to Submit your Paper to Turnitin

http://submit.ac.uk/en_gb/training/student-training/submitting-a-paper

EasyBib: Sign up for our Plagiarism Prevention Series

http://info.easybib.com/plagiarism-infographic-1-2

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