Academic Integrity and Plagiarism at Muhlenberg

At Muhlenberg College, plagiarism falls under the authority of the Academic Judicial Board, and is defined in the Academic Integrity Code (AIC) as:

“Intentional or unintentional copying from a book, article, notebook, or other paper or electronic source material whether published or unpublished, without giving proper credit through the standard use of quotation marks, footnotes, and other customary means of identifying sources, or passing off as one’s own the ideas, words, writings, and experiments of another. Plagiarism shall also include submitting without the consent of the professor an assignment already tendered for academic credit in another course” (Academic Judicial Board).