Plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Academic Honesty – 2025-2026

Student Writing Policies

1. All assignments college-wide will be prepared in accordance with the current MLA style of formatting.

2. Assignments will be submitted through electronic upload into Populi online or through hard copy submission in class (with the permission of the teaching professor). Students should refer to the course syllabus or course professor for specific instructions.

3. Submitting late assignments is up to the discretion of each course professor.

4. Submitting extra credit assignments is up to the discretion of each course professor.

5. The course requirements as listed in each course syllabus are subject to change by the professor or the college.

6. CCS courses are writing intensive, and the college adheres to a strict plagiarism policy.

7. Students are expected in all written assignments to ensure none of the content is plagiarized. When a student submits an assignment under his or her name, it is understood that the writing is the student’s own personal work contemporaneously written originally for the course in which it is submitted (reusing previously written work even if it is written by the student constitutes self plagiarism unless the student has prior approval from the course professor). Plagiarism is defined as using the work of another as one’s own without giving credit to the source. It is the failure to give attribution to the words, ideas or information of others on papers, projects or any assignment prepared for a course. It includes, but is not limited to:
1. Omitting quotation marks or other conventional markings around material quoted from any source;
2. Paraphrasing, summarizing, or quoting a passage from a source without referencing the source;
3. Purchasing or acquiring material of any kind and representing it as one’s own work; and replicating another person’s work and submitting it as one’s own work.
4. Plagiarism can be intentional and unintentional. Intentional plagiarism occurs when the student types word for word or copies and pastes direct words from a source.
Unintentional plagiarism occurs when a student does not master the material to the degree he/she can write in his/her own words resulting in using phrases, ideas, words, and factual information directly from the source. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to read, study, and master the source information while making brief notes. The student then sets the source information aside and while using his/her own brief notes crafts polished grammatically correct sentences.
5. Student use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) to write papers for assignment submissions is not in adherence to the student code of ethics at CCS.