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Plaigarism and cheating are violations of the student conduct code, and may be punished by failure in the course or, in severe cases, even dismissal from the University. Plaigarism is defined as presenting the work or ideas of others as your own. Plaigarism includes, but is not limited to, presenting portions of a text (from the web or the library) either verbatim or in paraphrase as your own without giving credit to the source. Students should use materials from a text or other research sources in their work, but then analyze or critique that material. The source of the material should be provided, as well as clear indications of where the source material ends and the student’s own voice begins.
Cheating includes, but is not limited to, unauthorized collaboration between students in writing a paper (discussing ideas with each other is great), submitting a paper already written for another course, and unauthorized use of material on an exam.
For more information, see Section VI. Of the Student Conduct Code available at the website of the Dean of Students: http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~dosa8/code2.html