Centre for Learning and Teaching
New Academic Staff Handbook
Academic Integrity
"Dalhousie University defines plagiarism as the presentation of the work of another author in such a way as to give one's reader reason to think it to be one's own. Plagiarism is a form of academic fraud.
Plagiarism is considered a serious academic offence which may lead to the assignment of a failing grade, suspension or expulsion from the University, or even the withdrawal of a degree previously awarded. Some examples of plagiarism are:
- the use of a paper purchased from a commercial research corporation or prepared by any person other than the individual claiming to be the author;
- copying, without giving credit to the author, from another's published or non-published works, another's computer codes/programmes, another's artistic or architectural works, another's scientific project, including material found on the internet."
(from Dalhousie's policy on Intellectual Honesty, March 2005)
Below are some excellent online resources available to Dalhousie faculty: