The principles of academic honesty will be vigorously enforced in CSE 250A, following the UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship.

Any type or amount of plagiarism is a very serious violation.  You may not steal phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or figures from books, published or unpublished papers, web pages, or any other source.

If you quote anything authored by anyone else, you must indicate very clearly that it is a quotation, and you must provide a precise citation immediately before or after the borrowed text or figure.  Quotations should be at most a very minor part of a report.  Almost all the writing in your report should be your own work.  To indicate that text is borrowed, use quotation marks and/or indentation, in addition to a citation.  Citations and bibliographies should be detailed, and follow a standard format of your choice.

All the software that you describe in your report must be the work of members of your team.  You are encouraged to build on libraries and other software written by other people, but if you do so, you must describe briefly in your report all the outside software that you use.

All experimental results presented in your report, including figures, tables, printouts, and text, must be genuine and not misleading.  It may happen that some of your code does not work perfectly.  In this case you should mention and explain this fact in your report.

You may obtain assistance with the projects from any source, including other students.  However all non-trivial help must be described briefly and acknowledged in your report.

Each person listed as an author of a report must take full responsibility for the entire content of the report.  The members of a team should act as editors for sections written by each other.  All team members should agree with and be willing to defend the conclusions, methods, and text of the report.  According to the Uniform Requirement for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals:

"All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship.  Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content.

"Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to 1) conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data; and to 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and on 3) final approval of the version to be published. Conditions 1, 2, and 3 must all be met. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship.  Any part of an article critical to its main conclusions must be the responsibility of at least one author."