Honor Code

Please familarize yourself with the university honor code (opens in new window). It is your responsibility to study it carefully and ask me for further explanation of any part you do not understand.

University faculty have an obligation to refer the names of those who may have violated the Honor Code to the Student Honor Committee, which treats such cases very seriously. Please also read the statement on plagiarism and the guidelines for ethical collaboration below.

Plagiarism Statement
Plagiarism is the equivalent of intellectual robbery. According to the University catalog, plagiarism includes the following:

• presenting as one's own the words, the work, or the opinions of someone else without proper acknowledgment.
  
• borrowing the sequence of ideas, the arrangement of material, or the pattern of thought of someone else without proper acknowledgment

You may, indeed should, discuss your ideas informally with others and receive feedback from peers on your drafts. However, it is not appropriate to ask someone else to rewrite, revise or finish your final submission. If your name appears on an assignment, your professor has the right to expect you to submit your own, unaided work.

You should also acknowledge the ideas you have acquired from others. Please give credit where credit is due, whether to a family member or friend with whom you have discussed the readings, to a writing colleague or a group member, or to a faculty member or any one else who has helped you to clarify your ideas.

Ethical Collaboration
Writing for Multimedia includes one group project. As many of you probably know from experience, the professional world increasingly rewards potential employees who possess sophisticated team-building and team-participation skills. But group projects are also fraught.

Each member of the group should be part of the formal collaboration and feel equally responsible for the results. Divide work as equally as you can and try to play to each individual team member's strengths. As a group member, don't rely on the enthusiasm and skill of one or two colleagues. Imagination, organizational and logistical skills, the facilitation of meetings so that everyone remains in a good mood, experience in the use of multimedia, etc. are all valuable skills for the group project in this course.

In formal collaborative work, names of all the participants should appear on the work. If a group member does not participate in completing the project, her or his name should not appear on the project.