Plagiarism is an act of literary fraud in which a writer passes off the ideas of another as his own. Plagiarism is listed in the University Calendar as an academic offence, and it is punishable by referral to the University's Academic Judicial Committee. At the university level, ignorance is not accepted as an excuse for plagiarism. You must therefore
Always cite the sources of ideas or words that are the original property of those sources.
Always indicate exact quotation through the use of quotation marks or quotation blocking.
Never submit the work of another student or work obtained from the Web or through some other source as your own.