Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism Policy
✔ It is the policy of SJDEFI to foster academic excellence and academic integrity in the practice of its mission and vision. Furthermore, the institution emboldens its faculty and students to conform with these standards in all their intellectual and research activities in pursuit of learning and individual formation to become a full-pledge Vincentian citizen in a community and in the country.
✔ This policy covers faculty and student rights, duties and responsibilities, standards and practices, processes and procedures for governing the inquiry, evaluation, and disposition of plagiarism cases in the pursuit of academic truths.
✔ The plagiarism policy covers all facets of intellectual and academic work of all Vincentian learners, including but not limited to the following:
Coverage
1. Term papers
2. Group Analysis and Reports
3. Laboratory Reports
4. Individual Reports and Reflection
5. Individual and Group Projects
6. Research Papers
7. Speeches
Forms of Plagiarism
✔ The forms of plagiarism take on various characteristics. The following forms may be used to spot plagiarism.
✔ Appropriating as one’s own a written source verbatim and directly using it without enclosing it in quotation marks or giving credit to the original author or making references to sources in a footnote or in-text reference.
✔ Taking words or paragraphs from a written source and paraphrasing a written source by changing one or two words or sentences without a direct quotation or giving credit.
✔ Copying the work of another and changing the structure of the sentences from active to passive or vice-versa without quoting or giving credit.
✔ Re-arranging the structure of the paragraphs of the copied material and passing it as his or her own without giving credit.
✔ Summarizing the copied material in his or her own words without giving proper credit.
✔ Adopting formulas, graphics, or pictures without acknowledgment.
✔ Borrowing facts, statistics, and illustrative materials without acknowledgment.
✔ Appropriating as one’s work the project output of a team of which he or she is a member without acknowledgement.
✔ Manipulating and deliberately changing facts and figures from a previous material and presenting them as new information in a plagiarized material.
