Editor’s Letter: The Fight for Good Journalism

Scenario 1: You copy a paragraph from the internet and paste it into your COMM 171 essay. Is this action acceptable or unacceptable? Why?

Scenario 2: You and your friend complete an essay that your instructor said must be done independently, and each of you submit the same essay as your own work in different sections of COMM 171. Is this action acceptable or unacceptable? Why?

Scenario 3: You use an online AI tool to write your own essay or pay a writing service to write the essay for you. You submit this as your own. Is this action acceptable or unacceptable? Why?