Boise State Academic Honesty Policy

Cheating or plagiarism in any form is unacceptable. The University functions to promote the cognitive and psychosocial development of all students. Therefore, all work submitted by a student must represent her/his own ideas, concepts, and current understanding. Academic dishonesty also includes submitting substantial portions of the same academic course work to more than one course for credit without prior permission of the instructor(s). (Article 3 Section 1 of the Student Code of Conduct)

The goal of Boise State University is to foster an intellectual atmosphere that produces educated, literate people. Because cheating and plagiarism are at odds with that goal, they shall not be tolerated in any form. Therefore, all work submitted by a student must represent that student's own ideas and effort; when the work does not, the student has engaged in academic dishonesty.
Plagiarism occurs when a person passes in another person's work as his/her own or borrows directly from another person's work without proper documentation. Except in cases of major offenses, response to academic dishonesty is the responsibility of the instructor of the course in which the dishonesty occurs. If a student is guilty of academic dishonesty, the student may be dismissed from the class and may receive a failing grade. Other penalties may include suspension or expulsion from school.

This came from Boise State's own Dr. Ted McDonald's Community Psychology syllabus.  He adapted these from Lisi Porter (1997) "Academic Honesty: An Ounce of Prevention.
The following are examples of plagiarism
"A. Copying homework answers from your text or friend to hand in for a grade.
B. Failing to give credit for ideas, statements of facts, or conclusions derived from another author. 
Failing to use quotation marks when quoting directly from another, whether it be in a paragraph, sentence or part thereof.
C. Submitting a paper purchased from a "research" or term paper service.
D. Retyping a friend's paper and turning it in as your own."
E. Using a paper or part of a paper  your wrote for another class and turning it in for this class without referencing it.