According to the catalog—Student Responsibility: * Students assume responsibility to avoid plagiarism by learning the proper procedures for acknowledging borrowed words, information, or ideas. Otherwise studens might innocently misrepresent others' material as their own.
* Students unfamiliar with procedures for citing sources should confer with their teacher.
* Students are to assume al course work is "no collaboration" unless stated otherwise by the teacher.

Department Policies: Some departments, because of the nature of their programs, have additional honesty policies which have the same force as those published here. Such policies will be presented to students before implementation.

Procedures for Handling Academic Dishonesty: When a teacher suspects academic dishonesty in some form, such as cheating or plagiarizing, the teacher must first confront the student with the dishonesty. If the student and teacher cannot resolve the situation, or if the student's grade will be affected, then the Vice President for Academic Administration must be consulted.
In establishing instances of academic dishonesty, the usual procedures for the teacher to follow will be to:
1. Give the student a failing grade on the exam, assignment, or project if the magnitude of either is not sufficient for failing the class.
2. Give the student a failing grade in the class if failing the exam, assignment or project would constitute failing the class.
*The teacher will then write up the incident and state the penalty administered, giving a copy to both the Vice President for Academic Administration and the student.
*Two incidents of Academic dishonesty make a student eligble to be dismissed from college.

In the "Student Guide: College Composition 101, 102" Southern Adventist University's Department of English makes this statement about plagiarism:

Consequently, you agree to fulfill each assignment according to the teacher's instructions. This includes avoiding all forms of plagiarism. Plagiarism involves taking and using as one's own the ideas or words of another without documenting such use. Use of material from other sources, wheter printed matter or writings of other students, should be acknowledged either in the body of the paper or in endnotes (see Harbrace 413, 414). Typistsshould be faithful to the writer's draft, and any changes made by a typist constitute plagiarism. Deliberate plagiarism is a serious offense which can result in suspension from school or failure in a course. Please read the school's stance on academic honesty in the catalog and let its principles guide you in your writing.

Everything under the bibliographic notation here below is quoted directly from pages 470-73 of the source cited.

Legget, Glen, et al. Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1988.

Plagiarism consists of passing off the ideas, opinions, conclusions, facts, words--in short, the intellectual work--of another as your own. Plagiarism is dishonest and carries penalties not only in academic environments but in all professions, as well as in copyright law.

The most obvious kind of plagiarism occurs when you appropriate whole paragraphs or longer passages from another writer for your own paper. Long word-for-word quotations are rarely apropriate to your paper, but if they ever are, you must indicate clearly that they are quotations and indicate their exact source. No less dishonest is the use of all or most of a single sentence or an apt figure of speech appropriated without acknowledgment from another source.

Suppose, for example, that you are working on a paper about families and have read a book by Jane Howard entitled Families. You have a note card on which you have written the partial sentence "good families have a switchboard operator--someone who cannot help but keep track of what all the others are up to..." Your notes indicate that this is a quotation. But when you turn to writing your paper, this and other phrases from the same source seem so apt to your purpose in a slightly different context that you yield to temptation and write, as if in your own words, All families need at least two things: someone around whom others cluster and someone who cannot help but keep track of what all the others are up to--a kind of switchboard operator. You have plagiarized just as badly as the writer who has appropriated a whole paragrpah. The words are not yours, they are Jane Howard's, and honesty requires that you give her credit for them.

You are unlikely to copy directly from another writer witout beig consciously dishonest asyou do so. But even though you acknowledge the source of a citation, you are also plagiarizing when you incorporate in your paper faultily paraphrased or summarized passages from another author in which you follow almost exactly the original's sentence patterns and phrasing. Paraphrasing and summarizing require that you frully digest an author's ideas and interpretations and restate them in your own words. It is not enough simply to modify the original author's sentences slightly, to change a word here and there. Consider the following sample paragraph and summary:

ORIGINAL

"The craft of hurrican forecasting advanced rapidly in the Sixties and early Seventies, thanks to fast computers and new atmospheric modeling techniques. Now there is a lull in the progress, strangely parallels to the lull in the storm cycle. The Center shoots for a 24-hour warning period, with 12 daylight hours foe evacuation. At that remove, it can usually predict landfall within 100 miles either way. Longer leads times mean much larger landfall error and that is counterproductive. He who misses his predictions cries wolf" (William H. Macleish, "Our Barrier Islands." Smithsonian Sept. 1980:54).

FAULTY PARAPHRASE

Hurricane forecasting made rapid progress in the sixties and seventies due to fast computers and new atmospheric techniques, but there is now a lull in the progress. The Warning Center tries for a 24-hour warning period, including 12 hours of daylight. That close to a storm, it can usually predict landfall within 100 miles either way. If lead times are longer, there will be a much larger error, which will be counterproductive (Macleish 54).

Even though the writer acknowledges the author (as indicated by the citation at the end of the paraphrase), this is a clear example of plagiarism. The author has combined the first two sentences of the original and changed a few words here and there but in no way indicated that most of the paragraph's structure and phrasing is almost exactly that of the original.

IMPROVED PARAPHRASE

New techniques, together with computers, have significantly increased the accuracy of hurricane forecasting. Now it is possible to predict where a hurricane will hit land with an error of not more than 100 miles if a warning of 24 hours is allowed. If more than 24 hours is required, the error will be proportionately greater (Macleish 54).

This paraphrase successfully puts the information in the words of the researcher. Both the sentence structure and the phrasing are clearly the researcher's, not the original aiuthor's. But such a full paraphrase of a relatively simple passage is probably much more complete than someone researching hurricane warning problems and developments in a variety of sources would need. In many contexts, a simpole, brief sumamry statement like the following might well be sufficient:

SUMMARY

With computers and newtechniques, forecasters can now provide a 24-hour hurricane warning and predict within 100 miles either way where a storm will hit (Macleish 54).