Academic Honesty
Harvard Extension School expects students to understand and maintain high standards of academic honesty. Students suspected of academic dishonesty are subject to review and disciplinary action by the Administrative Board for University Extension. Examples of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to, the following.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the theft of someone else's ideas and work. Whether a student copies verbatim or simply rephrases the ideas of another without properly acknowledging the source, the theft is the same. A computer program written as part of the student's academic work is, like a paper, expected to be the student's original work and subject to the same standards of representation. In the preparation of work submitted to meet course requirements, whether a draft or a final version of a paper, project, take-home exam, computer program, or other written assignment, students must take great care to distinguish their own ideas and language from information derived from sources. Sources include published primary and secondary materials, the Internet, and information and opinions gained directly from other people. Whenever ideas or facts are derived from a student's reading and research, the sources must be properly cited.
It is the student's responsibility to learn the proper forms of citation according to standards delineated by Harvard University. This is true even for students from other countries who may have been taught to use sources in other ways. Writing with Sources: A Guide for Harvard Students, prepared by Harvard's Expository Writing Program, is on reserve at Grossman Library and available online. Students who have questions about the standards of scholarly writing should speak with their instructors before beginning research on assigned papers and projects.
Cheating
Collaboration in the completion of written assignments is prohibited unless explicitly permitted by the instructor. Students must acknowledge any collaboration and its extent in all submitted coursework.
Students may not copy another student's assignment, computer program or parts of a program, or exam. No communication is allowed between students during an exam, and no student is permitted to keep books, papers, calculators, computers, or notes during an exam except with the permission of the instructor or proctor.
It is expected that all work submitted for a course has been done solely for that course. A student may not submit the same or similar work to any other course without the prior written permission of the instructors involved.
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