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Butler Community College defines academic integrity as "the development of knowledge and/or skills without any form of cheating or plagiarism."

It is important that students are honest about who, what, or where they get their information from. When you are not honest, you are cheating. Cheating is when you use people or tools to complete or do something for you without permission. There are different types of cheating, such as plagiarism.

Butler defines cheating as:

• Giving, receiving, or using unauthorized help on individual and group academic work (papers, presentations, quizzes, and tests)
• Pretending to be another student
• Sharing content without permission
• Creating false data or information to support academic work
• Changing academic documents, including records
• Using AI generators (e.g., ChatGPT), language translators, or computer algebra systems (e.g., Photomath) to complete coursework without credit or permission

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When you do not credit someone for their ideas or work, it is considered plagiarism. Butler defines plagiarism as:

• Representing or turning in someone else's work without appropriate citation
• Not acknowledging the paragraph, quoting, or complete use of someone else's work
• Citing work that is not used
• Taking credit for a (group) project without contributing
• Letting another person or organization write or contribute to any part of an assignment, including hiring someone or a company to do your assignments
• Using AI (e.g., ChatGPT) without proper attribution or authorization
• Using the same written assignment for more than one class without permission from prior instructors
• Failing to cite yourself as a source when using work submitted at Butler or other schools, including high school