Honor Code

Fabrication or Falsification

Fabrication or falsification is a form of dishonesty where a student invents or distorts the origin or content of information used as authority. Examples include: 

• Citing a source that does not exist.

• Attributing to a source ideas and information that are not included in the source.

• Citing a source for a proposition that it does not support.

• Citing a source in a bibliography when the source was neither consulted nor cited in the body of the paper.

• Intentionally distorting the meaning or applicability of data.

• Inventing data or statistical results to support conclusions.