Defining Plagiarism
Corey Bodine
Learning Strategies
Professor Renner
September 2, 2013

Defining Plagiarism Plagiarism is the act of submitting someone else’s work and claiming it as your own. This would include an entire paper written by another person, but can also involve not properly citing sources or re-using previously submitted work of your own.
The penalties for plagiarism and academic dishonesty in general (e.g. cheating) start out with an immediate failing grade in the class in which the dishonesty took place and can lead up to complete dismissal from the university itself.
Personally, with the knowledge that I would actually like to complete a degree (and learn from it), it makes no rational sense to be academically dishonest. Failing a course would set back the process of completing said degree by a large amount, and, of course, being dismissed from Franklin completely defeats the purpose of attempting to obtain the degree in the first place.
At Franklin, using turnitin.com can help to avoid plagiarism in a final product. However, even before the time of submission, one may use the writing center for help with citing sources and creating an appropriate reference page to avoid inadvertent plagiarism.
The Franklin University Academic Bulletin lists plagiarism as using all or part of someone else’s work as your own during an exam, computer program, or writing assignment (Bertran, 2013, p. 18). It also covers other forms of academic dishonesty including recycling assignments, or using your own work more than once (p. 18) and cheating, which is to use or attempt the use of aid while taking an exam or completing an assignment (p. 18). The Franklin University Academic Bulletin also includes Facilitation, or helping someone else commit academic dishonesty, as well as fabrication, or altering academic information (p. 18).

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