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Academic Honesty Policy
Antelope Valley College has a Board approved
policy on cheating, plagiarism and academic honesty.
The Antelope Valley College Student Code
of Conduct section 6032.1 states:
"Dishonesty, including but not limited
to, cheating, or plagiarism. Plagiarism--from the Latin
word for 'kidnap'--involves using another's work without
giving proper credit, whether done accidentally or on
purpose. This includes not only words and ideas, but
also graphs, artwork, music, maps, statistics, diagrams,
scientific data, software, films, videos and the like.
Plagiarism is plagiarism whether the material is from
published or unpublished sources. It does not matter
whether ideas are stolen, bought, downloaded from the
Internet, or written for the student by someone else--it
is still plagiarism. Even if only bits and pieces of
other sources are used, or outside sources reworded,
they must still be cited. To avoid problems, students
should cite any source(s) and check with the instructor
before submitting an assignment or project. Students
are always responsible for any plagiarism in their work.
An instructor who determines that a student
has cheated or plagiarized has the right to give an
'F' grade, or numerical equivalent, for the assignment
or examination.
Antelope Valley College reserves
the right to utilize electronic means to investigate
possible academic violations. Enrollment in any class
implies student agreement and consent that all assignments
are subject to submission for textual similarity review
to an electronic database."
