Plagiarism

Graduate students are expected to know what constitutes plagiarism and are expected to comply with all university rules and regulations. UofL's Student Handbook, Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities, Section 5E, describes plagiarism in these terms:

Representing the words or ideas of someone else as one’s own in any academic exercise, such as,

• Submitting as one’s own a paper written by another person or by a commercial “ghost writing” service,
• Exactly reproducing someone else’s words without identifying the words with quotation marks or by appropriate indentation, or without properly citing the quotation in a footnote or reference.
• Paraphrasing or summarizing someone else’s work without acknowledging the source with a footnote or reference.
• Using facts, data, graphs, charts, or other information without acknowledging the source with a footnote or reference. Borrowed facts or information obtained in one’s research or reading must be acknowledged unless they are “common knowledge.” … The specific audience for which a paper is written may determine what can be viewed as “common knowledge”: for example, the facts commonly known by a group of chemists will differ radically from those known by a more general audience.