Honor Code

Sources

A large number of publications and policies of colleges and universities were reviewed in creating BYU's Academic Honesty Policy. Some of the content and structure of this policy were adapted from the following sources: 

• "Academic Honesty," a brochure produced by the Office of Judicial Affairs, University of Florida.

• "Academic Honesty and Dishonesty," a brochure produced by the Office of the Dean of Students, University of Delaware.

• "Academic Honesty and Dishonesty," a brochure produced by the Dean of Students Office, Louisiana State University.

• "A Statement on Plagiarism," a committee report from the October 1994 Conference on the Center for Academic Integrity, Tom Langhorne, Binghamton University (chair).

• "Definition of Plagiarism," by Harold C. Martin, taken from The Logic and Rhetoric of Exposition, by Harold C. Martin, Richard M. Ohmann, and James H. Wheatly, 3rd ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969).

• Legal Aspects of Plagiarism, by Ralph D. Mawdsley (Topeka, Kansas: National Organization on Legal Problems of Education, 1985).

• "Plagiarism - The Do's and Don'ts," a brochure produced by the Office of Student Judicial Affairs of the University of California - Davis.