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Students will be asked to do a great deal of written work while at Columbia: term papers and analytic essays of different lengths. These papers play a major role in course performance.
There have been some instances in which students attempt to submit the work of other people as their own. Because intellectual integrity is the hallmark of educational institutions,
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In making clear Columbia's policy on plagiarism, it is not feasible to include here all the various forms-they are innumerable-that plagiarism might take. It is useful, however, to list several varieties in order to dispel confusion about actions that the School will not accept:
1. submitting essays,
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2. failing to acknowledge, through footnotes and bibliographic entries, the source of ideas essentially not one's
3. failing to indicate paraphrases or ideas or verbatim expressions not one's own through proper use of quotations and footnotes;
4. collaborating on an assignment or examination without specific permission from the faculty member to do so.
If questions arise concerning proper use of quotations,
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