Academic Fraud/Dishonesty

Students are expected to do original work for all assignments. Cheating is defined as “the giving or receiving of aid (whether written, oral, or otherwise) in order for a student to receive undeserved credit on classwork, homework, tests, or any other assignment that is his/her own responsibility.” Plagiarism involves stealing another person’s work and claiming it as one’s own. It occurs whenever one directly copies another person’s intellectual effort and integrates it into his/her classwork without giving proper credit to the author. Paraphrasing is defined as “a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form.” When one paraphrases but intentionally omits authorship of the work, this, too, is a serious violation of academic dishonesty. Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated in any form during any type of evaluation. Candidates are held to the highest degree of conduct. The Alabama Fire College takes the issue of cheating and unethical conduct seriously and all incidents will be investigated.