Submitting Work Previously Used

Do not submit work completed in another course or assignment without first receiving the instructor's permission.

By turning in a work that originated as the result of a previous learning experience, you’re essentially earning credit for a second experience that never happened. Although you’re not misappropriating another person’s intellectual property, you would be misrepresenting your learning, which makes this an act of academic dishonesty.

That means that without instructor permission, you cannot:

• Change the title of an essay submitted in a class in the previous year and submit it for a current class.
• Take a paper from one class, add new material, and turn it in for a second class.
• Copy several paragraphs from a previous assignment, slightly revise them, and insert them in a new assignment.
• Cut a table from a lab report in a chemistry class in the same semester and inserts it in a research paper in a second class.

In some cases an instructor will grant you permission to submit work that originated in another course or even in the same class (e.g., the instructor tells you to revise a paper and resubmit it for additional credit). You accept full responsibility for understanding the faculty members’ instructions and must follow them completely.