Statement on Academic Integrity

North Central Texas College is a community of scholars who consider academic integrity
essential to its sustenance. Cheating, which includes plagiarism, is prohibited by the
Student Code of Conduct. Students guilty of plagiarism and/or other forms of cheating
may fail the course and be brought before the Office of Student Life.

If you are unsure of the rules, it is your responsibility to read the student handbook and
to come to your professor with questions. After you turn in a paper, it will be too late,
and you will be subject to the rules of the Student Handbook and the punishments
outlined therein.

Plagiarism includes the following offenses:

Claiming as your own work a paper written by another student.

Turning in a paper that is largely a restatement in your own words of a paper written by
someone else, even if you give credit to that person for those ideas. The thesis and
organizing principles of a paper must be your own.

Turning in a paper that contains paraphrases of someone else’s ideas but does not give
proper credit to that person for those ideas.

Turning in a paper that uses the exact words of another author without using quotation
marks, even if proper credit is given in a parenthetical citation, or that changes the
words only slightly and claims them to be paraphrases.

Turning in the same paper, even in a different version, for two different courses without
the permission of both professors involved.

Student Pledge:

I have read and fully understand the above, and I understand that I will be held
responsible for intentional and unintentional plagiarism in my papers for this course. I am
signing this document by typing my name and student i.d. number.

Type Name:Ethan Jeffery

Type Student I.D. Number:1655572

Type Date:12/14/22