The Academic Regulations and Procedures of Carleton College outline the core standards for defining any act of academic dishonesty on p. 1. You will find a much more complete discussion of academic honesty in the “Complete Academic Honesty Handbook” available at the following URL:

In this course, you are required to be aware of and comply with these regulations. I wish to underscore them at this time as you prepare written work in this course. *Any ideas* that you take from work that was not authored by you or any idea that you receive orally, even from colleagues, must be attributed in all of your written work to fulfill the ethical standards of the College and the discipline of political science. This applies to published and unpublished work, work on the internet or email attachments, work that you consult as a reference on all but the most mundane historical and empirical facts and figures that merely *describe* an event, a political actor, but do not provide any original analysis or interpretation. The principle also applies to ideas not presented as direct quotations.

In *all* of these cases you must attribute credit to the source in either footnotes or endnotes or in parenthetical citations in the text (see any course handouts on the required format; if there are no handouts on format, then you may choose the particular format after consulting the suggestions in the “Complete Academic Honesty Handbook”).

My rule of thumb for all students and for myself is: “when in doubt, cite.”

If you have any doubts or questions, I strongly recommend that you email me (amontero) to clarify the issue for you or for the class as a whole.

I also want to underscore the penalties for failure to comply with these principles of good academic conduct. They are discussed in the “Community Standards Policy,” Section III.C.

My position is that there is no excuse for violating these principles of good academic conduct out of mere ignorance if you have all of this information at your disposal. The responsibility is yours.