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". . . be it known that we
do not want any person who will cheat, lie, steal, plagiarize, or
falsify information in our midst"
Baylor School Honor Code |
Plagiarism is taking the
ideas or words of another and passing them off as one's own. In an academic community,
intentional plagiarism is an
especially serious violation of trust. For how can teachers help
students learn the skills they need if students are not truthful about
the work they do?
It is not surprising,
then, that plagiarism is one of the offenses listed in the Baylor
Honor Code. In fact, as the excerpt at left emphatically states,
the students who created the code in 1916 and who have pledged to
uphold it in the decades that followed believe that students who
plagiarize should not be part of the Baylor community.
The school's faculty
understand, however, that learning to avoid plagiarism is an
intellectual journey as well as a moral matter. This guide is our
attempt to help students understand what plagiarism is and teach them
the skills to avoid it.
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