Physics Department Academic Integrity Policy for Graduate Students
(Draft, August 27, 2007)
Each Duke Physics Graduate Student is expected to honor and adhere to the Duke Standard of Conduct, which can be found
Graduate Bulletin, page 62
Examples of Academic Misconduct:
- Plagiarism in completing a course writing assignment, in a take-home exam,
in a homework assignment, and in writing a research report or paper
- Fabrication of experimental data in research
We also refer students to the following resources concerning plagiarism:
Each course instructor should make clear in the beginning of the semester
what is considered appropriate and what is not regarding students'
collaboration on homework assignments, projects, papers, and gathering
information from the Internet or other books. The instructor should
also make clear whether exams, tests, or homework solutions used in
previous years can be used for review or not in preparation for an exam,
test, or homework assignments; also whether a paper written for a course
previously can be used or not for the current course. Students should
also be informed in the first lecture of the convention and method used
for citation.
This policy should be in writing and should also be posted
on the course web page before the first lecture of the semester.
Students who do not receive explicit instructions should assume that
collaboration and use of any materials from a previous version of the
course are NOT allowed, but should ask the
instructor for clarification.
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