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Module 4 Cite

Penalties

Your instructors, and the students on the Honor Council, can identify plagiarism without too much trouble. They can search the web as well as you. It’s obvious when your words or ideas aren’t yours. They have many resources available to identify plagiarized work:

Searching the web
Searching library databases
Turnitin.com, a term paper plagiarism identifier
Paper mills
Honor Council- made up of other students
Other instructors

Here are the things that could happen to students who plagiarize, whether they meant to or not:

Academic sanctions from the faculty

F on the project
F in the course
Giving additional assignments

Non-academic sanctions from the Honor Council

Warning letter
Probation
Community service
Ethics seminar
Suspension
Expulsion
Transcript notation
Ineligibility for course
forgiveness
Loss of some scholarships

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