Plagiarism is a type of fraud: to use the work or ideas of someone
else as being yours in order to obtain better school results. Plagiarism is
treated very seriously. The assignments which you give must be yours and do not
have to contain the ideas of other people. Please consult the policy of the
You can discuss the theory and
the tools used in the assignments with your friends in the class. Do not
collaborate in the resolution of the questions in the assignment. No written
material should result from these discussions. You should not look at the solutions
of another student on paper or screen, even when it is incomplete. The
programming, the analysis of the results, the drafting of reports/ratios and
the answers to the assignments must be done individually (unless specified
otherwise).
If you use resources (books, Internet…) at the time of the resolution of
your problems, then you should include the suitable references.
To help somebody to make plagiarism is also a serious offence. Do not lend your
answers, reports/projects, or diskettes, and do not let other people read or
copy them. In order to protect you from people who could copy your work,
preserve all your work and drafts until they were corrected and returned to
you. If you suspect that somebody stole your work, contact your professor immediately.
Even if you do your individual assignment without the
assistance of other people, there is nevertheless the possibility for the
students helping others. For example, you can re-examine difficult material of
course/laboratoire, do exercises together, or help
each other to understand the statement of an assignment (while limiting itself
to the problem, without discussing solutions).
The forums of discussion on WebCT can be used to
speak about the techniques and tools used in the duties, but the discussions
should not mention partial solutions or potential with the questions of the
assignment.
If you do not know if a question that you wish to pose (or to which you would
like to answer) goes against these hot lines, then discuss the question with your
teaching assistant (TA) or with your professor. If the answer can be of
general interest, this will be communicated to all the students in the course.
The TAs have the order to report any suspicion of plagiarism (during the correction) to the professor. Suitable measures will be taken if it is found that an assignment (or part of it) was copied.
This document is based
on "
Policy on Plagiarism " by Dr. Amy Felty (September
2002).