A note about plagiarism
Prof. David Thorburn

Submitting under your name prose that has been written by another is an unforgivable form of intellectual dishonesty. I recommend dismissal from the Institute for any student guilty of this crime. I give an F to such students. Using ideas developed by others is acceptable, so long as you acknowledge your intellectual debt completely and explicitly. If you borrow another person's phrasing, that material must be enclosed in quotation marks. If you use ideas conceived by others but reformulate them in your own prose, then you must acknowledge your collaboration in one of two ways: explicit acknowledgment in the body of your text (As Lionel Trilling argues in his introduction to Pride and Prejudice, . . .) or in a footnote fully citing your source.