The assignment is to critique, revise, and rewrite the attached draft of a regulation forbidding stealing and related forms of academic dishonesty (e.g., discussing take-home exams or using forbidden materials in an exam), Be sure to fill any gaps that you find in the draft-revising the language is not sufficient.

The proposed regulation must give students notice of what conduct is forbidden and what conduct is required. It must also include procedures for implementing the regulation and sanction for violating them. In other words, retain the sessions in the draft regulation: a preamble, a definition section, a prohibitions section, a procedures section, and a sanctions section.

Before revising and rewriting it, critiques the attached regulation. In particular, pay attention to the following concern.

1. The Three Principles of Organization

-Are the parts mutually exclusive or do they overlap?

-Do the parts form a whole, i.e., are all necessary provisions present or are there gaps?

- Are the parts in a logical order?

2. Conceptualization

- Are the headings informative and at the appropriate level of generality?

-Do provisions within the sections contradict each other or are they consistent?

-Are terms consistently used?

-Are the definitions and provisions sensible?

3. Word and Sentence-Level Problems

-Are words of authority correctly used?

-Are the right words defined and are definitions appropriately formulated?

-Are there problems with tense?

-Are words used that are ambiguous or vague?

-Is there redundancy or wordiness?

-Is there syntactic (sentence structure) ambiguity?

-Is there faulty parallelism?

- Are sections and provisions correctly and consistently numbered?

- Is tabulated sentence structure helpfully and correctly used?

- Are there punctuation errors?

The Regulation

Sec. 1. Preamble

The purpose of this section is to provide a clear guideline to students by defining, prohibiting and providing sanctions for stealing and related forms of academic dishonesty when producing works of scholarship. The goal to be achieved by this guideline is to promote originality in the works of students as well as to encourage thorough research, thereby preserving the integrity and the reputation of this institution.

Sec. 2. Definitions

(a) A student includes a person

1. currently enrolled in the institution, or

2. attending any classes at this institution.

(b) "The Committee on Academic Affairs" consists of

1. the Dean of Academic Affairs, and

2. two professors appointed by the Dean of Academic Affairs for a one-year term.

(c) Plagiarism shall mean the intentional or unintentional failure to provide proper acknowledgment

1. for direct quotations

2. language, facts or ideas that have been paraphrased or summarized

(d) Academic Dishonesty means

1. using material not authorized by the instructor during an examination,

2. or in preparing an assignment,

3. participating in discussions prohibited by the instructor during an examination or in preparing an assignment, or

4. assisting another student to commit any of the above offenses.

Sec. 3. Prohibited Conduct

(1) Any form of academic dishonesty by a student is prohibited. A form of academic dishonesty is plagiarism. Examples of plagiarism are:

(a) attributing a quoted passage to a source that does not contain that quoted passage;

(b) attributing material to a source that does not support the passage for which it is cited;

(c) the word for word copying of another's work, regardless of length, without quotation marks; and

(d) paraphrasing important concepts without acknowledging the source.

(2) Examples of cheating are:

(a) viewing any material that was expressly forbidden to be used, and

(b) sharing or listening to any information that was expressly forbidden to be disclosed in an in- class exam or take-home exam.

(3) Members of the Law School Community shall file good faith reports of alleged acts of dishonesty.

Sec. 4. Procedure

1. Reporting allegations of academic dishonesty

(a) A student or professor dishonest who wishes to make an allegation of academic dishonesty must make a complaint to the Office of the Dean.

1) Upon receiving a complaint, the Office of the Dean must then:

i. forward one copy of the complaint to the Committee on Academic Dishonesty.

Ii. personally serve one copy of the complaint upon the student, and

Iii. retain one copy for record keeping purposes.

2. Notice

Prior to conducting a hearing, the Committee on Academic Dishonesty may

(a) provide written notice to the accused student that it has received a formal registered complaint naming the accused student, and

(b) provide written notice to the accused student thirty days prior to holding a hearing on the matter.

3. Hearing

(a) Hearings must be conducted no later than 60 days after the Office of the Dean has received a formal registered complaint.

(b) Hearings may only be conducted in the presence of

i. the entire Committee on Academic Dishonesty, and

il. the accused-student.

4. Duties of the law school

(a) The law school must appoint a member of the faculty as prosecuting counsel.

(b) Prior to the hearing, the law school's counsel must provide the accused student with a witness list.

(c) At the hearing the law school's counsel must

I. make an opening statement, and

ii. present testimonial or documentary evidence in support of allegation(s) of Academic Dishonesty.

5. Rights of the Accused Student

(a) The accused student may represent himself at the hearing, or retain counsel for such purposes.

(b) At the hearing the accused student or their counsel may

i. make an opening statement,

ii. challenge the admissibility of evidence,

iii. cross-examination of any witness called to testify by counsel for the law school,

iv. present testimonial or documentary evidence,

v. make a closing statement.

6. Post-Hearing Deliberations

(a) During deliberations the Committee on Academic Dishonesty may only consider evidence previously admitted at the hearing.

(b) The Committee on Academic Dishonesty shall issue a formal finding.

Section 4: Appeals

1. A student who wishes to appeal must file a notice of appeal with the Office of the Dean within 10 days.

2. The filing of a notice of appeal shall temporarily suspend the enforcement of the sanction imposed on the accused student.

3. Appeals must be heard by the Board of Appeals within seven days of the filing of a notice of appeal.

4. In order to affirm, the Board of Appeals must

(a) unanimously agree that the accused student violated

Sec. 3 beyond a reasonable doubt, and

(b) set forth in writing the evidence that persuaded the Board to affirm the formal finding.

Sec. 7 Sanctions

Any student found guilt of academic dishonest or stealing may be sanction by

a. receiving a failing grade for the course,

b. being dismissed from the course,

c. being suspended from the Law School,

d. being dismissed from the Law School, and

e. notification to Bar authorities of the student's violation of the rules imposed by this section.

Sec. 8 Exceptions to Prohibited Conduct

1. Exceptions may be made when:

Professors authorize collaboration between students.