Academic Honesty Statement

Department of English, College of the Holy Cross

Academic work is based upon trust. In order for your instructors to help you improve the quality of your work and also to evaluate it, they have to be able to trust that it is your own. If you abuse that trust, you undermine the shared understanding that makes the academic enterprise possible.

Whenever you make use of outside sources for language or ideas, you must acknowledge them in formal citations. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism, a serious academic offense.

Follow this link for more on the The English Department's Guidelines regarding Academic Honesty.

The full statement of the College policy on Academic honesty may be found at: http://www.holycross.edu/catalog/academic-honesty-policy.pdf

You may also consult the following Web sites for additional information on academic honesty and plagiarism.

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/plagiarism/main.html
http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/plagiarism.htm#plagiarism
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01
http://college.hmco.com/english/plagiarism_prevention.html