Academic Honesty / Plagiarism

Academic Honesty and the Honor Code

 

All students of the University are expected to understand the meaning of the Loyola University Maryland Honor Code. Ignorance of the Code is not a valid reason for committing an act of academic dishonesty. The following constitute violations of the Code and are defined in the Community Standards Handbook: cheating, stealing, lying, forgery, plagiarism, and the failure to report a violation. In addition, according to History Department policy, “Students caught plagiarizing, or violating the Honor Code in any way, should expect academic consequences and to be reported to the Honor Council.”

Plagiarism

 

Plagiarism entails representing someone else's work as your own. Such behavior is unacceptable and will result in severe penalties. In the case of papers, cheating includes the use of other people's ideas without proper citations or the use of other people's words without quotation marks and citations. It may also include the use of generative AI in ways not approved by the instructor. Anyone caught cheating or helping someone else to cheat, whether on an exam, a quiz, or a paper, should expect to receive academic penalties that may include failure of the course. If you do not understand the definition of plagiarism, be sure to confer with your professor.