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Cheating

Cheating is not fair to other students and eventually is not benefitial to the cheater. All observed and reported cheating in the class will be investigated. All confirmed cheaters will be penalized. The penality of cheating is at least not counting the involved assignment or examinations. The professor reserves the rights for more punitive actions.

What constitutes cheating? In the context of a class, a student cheats if the student does not personally and independently complete submitted assignments or answer questions in a submitted examination. Working on questions in an examination using resources (time, notes, textbook, calculators and etc.) other than the ones allowed is also considered cheating. If an assignment is collaborative, a student can still cheat if the student does not contribute sufficiently to the submitted assignment. Furthermore, any student who helps another student submit work without personal and independent effort is also considered an accomplice in cheating. Any accomplice is penalized exactly the same as a cheater.

If a student suspects others are cheating, incidents can be reported anonymously. In other words, I will not disclose the informer without permission.


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Tak Auyeung 2003-11-10