Cheating and Plagiarism

Academic Integrity at City Tech

Students and all others who work with information, ideas, texts, images, music, inventions, and other intellectual property owe their audience and sources accuracy and honesty in using, crediting, and citing sources. As a community of intellectual and professional workers, the College recognizes its responsibility for providing instruction in information literacy and academic integrity, offering models of good practice, and responding vigilantly and appropriately to infractions of academic integrity. Accordingly, academic dishonesty is prohibited in The City University of New York and at New York City College of Technology and is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension, and expulsion. The complete text of the College policy on Academic Integrity may be found in the catalog. — NYCCT statement on academic integrity

Academic Integrity/Plagiarism

Any occurrence of academic dishonesty, such as cheating or plagiarism will result a failing grade. In addition, the incidence will be reported to the Academic Integrity Committee. What is academic dishonesty? Academic dishonesty occurs when individuals plagiarize or cheat in the course of their academic work.

Plagiarism is the presenting of someone else’s ideas without proper credit or attribution. These ideas could come from:

  1. Information obtained from books, journals or other printed sources.
  2. The work of other students or of faculty.
  3. Information from the Internet.
  4. Software programs or other electronic material.
  5. Designs produced by other students or faculty. Cheating is the unauthorized use or attempted use of material, information, notes, study aids, devices or communication during an academic exercise.

Examples of cheating include:

  1. Copying from another student during an examination or allowing another to copy your work.
  2. Unauthorized collaboration on a take-home assignment or examination.
  3. Using notes during a closed-book examination.
  4. Taking an examination for another student, or asking or allowing another student to take an examination for you.
  5. Changing a graded exam and returning it for more credit.
  6. Submitting substantial portions of the same paper to more than one course without consulting each instructor.
  7. Preparing answers or writing notes in an exam manual before an examination.
  8. Allowing others to research and write assigned papers or do assigned projects, including the use of commercial term paper services.
  9. Giving assistance to acts of academic misconduct/dishonesty.
  10. Fabricating data (in whole or in part).
  11. Falsifying data (in whole or in part).
  12. Unauthorized use during an examination of electronic or wireless, handheld devices, including computers or other technologies to retrieve or send information during an exam.