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Why Documentation Matters:

CU Honor Code

“On my honor, as a University of Colorado at Boulder student, I have neither given nor received unauthorized assistance on this work”

Every student is responsible to the honor code by promising not to:

• Plagiarize (copying and pasting, submitting someone else’s work as yours, failing to cite sources etc.)

• Cheat (using unauthorized study aids, getting someone else to take your test, collaboration etc)

• Fabricate (inventing research or sources)

• Aid (helping someone else do any of these things)

• Lie (about your academic submissions)

• Bribe (either offering or taking)

• Threaten

The Honor Code, Honor Council, and violation investigations are all run completely by other students.

Plagiarism is not always on purpose.