Academic Honesty / Plagiarism Statement
TSTC expects all students to engage in academic pursuits in a manner that is beyond reproach. Students will be expected to maintain complete honesty and integrity in their experiences in the classroom and/or laboratory. Any student found guilty of academic dishonesty is subject to disciplinary action.
“Scholastic dishonesty” includes, but is not limited to, cheating on academic work, plagiarism and collusion.
A. Cheating on academic work includes:
• Copying from another student’s test paper or other academic work;
• using, during a test, materials not authorized by the individual giving the test;
• collaborating, without authority, with another student during an examination or in preparing academic work;
• knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of an unadministered test;
• substitution for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for
oneself, to take a test or prepare other academic work; and bribing another person to obtain an unadministered test.
B. “Plagiarism” means the appropriation of another’s work without acknowledged incorporation of that work into one’s own written work offered for credit.
C. “Collusion” means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work offered for credit.
