Grading
Plagiarism 

        Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else’s words or ideas, whether intentionally or unintentionally.  It is a capital offense to copy portions of other texts or even to paraphrase someone else’s ideas without giving credit to the original author, to mislead your readers into thinking those words or ideas are your own.  It is therefore expected that you will give reference to the original authors who may have inspired you and that you will document all your sources.  The penalty for plagiarism will be decapitation: those who do not use their heads neither need nor deserve to keep them. 
        Seriously, plagiarism is grounds for failure.  At the discretion of the instructor, you may fail the assignment or you may fail the course.

Examples
       Intentional plagiarism exists when a student lists sources that he or she has not used; when a student copies from a source but fails to cite it, thereby misrepresenting the original source's ideas as his or her own; when a student copies material from another student's work without giving that other student credit; when a student buys or borrows a whole paper or portions of a paper from another student or from the World Wide Web; when a student copies another artist's music or work of art and tries to submit it as his or her own.
        Unintentional plagiarism, which is also punishable, may exist when a student attempts to paraphrase or summarize a source but copies too much from the source instead of re-writing the ideas in his or her own words; when a student inadvertently fails to include a parenthetical reference to a source, although the source is listed among the citations at the end of the paper; when a student fails to put quotation marks around quoted material; when a student relies too heavily on external sources, thus expressing few or none of his or her own ideas.
        These examples are not all inclusive of every possible form of plagiarism and should not be considered as such.