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CHAPTER VI: STUDENT CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE

  1. General Standards of Conduct

    1. Academic Conduct

      It is expected that students attending the University of California understand and subscribe to the ideal of academic integrity, and are willing to bear individual responsibility for their work. Any work (written or otherwise) submitted to fulfill an academic requirement must represent a student's original work. Any act of academic dishonesty such as cheating or plagiarism, will subject a person to University disciplinary action. Using or attempting to use materials, information, study aids, or commercial ``research'' services not authorized by the instructor of the course constitutes cheating. Representing the words, ideas, or concepts of another person without appropriate attribution is plagiarism. Whenever another person's written work is utilized, whether it be single phrase or longer, quotation marks must be used and sources cited. Paraphrasing another's work, i.e., borrowing the ideas or concepts and putting them into one's ``own'' words, must also be acknowledged. Although a person's state of mind and intention will be considered in determining the University response to an act of academic dishonesty, this in now way lessens the responsibility of the student.

The above is excerpted from the January, 1991 revision of the University of California, Santa Barbara Campus Regulations Applying to Campus Activities, Organizations, and Students. That document is available from the Office of the Dean of Students (893-4467).
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