Plagiarism
Writing support at NIU is designed to help you strengthen writing skills while maintaining academic integrity. As a student, you are responsible for ensuring your submitted work reflects your own learning and appropriately acknowledges information and ideas drawn from other sources. Writing consultants can help you understand appropriate source use, citation practices and expectations for incorporating the ideas of others into your own work.
Plagiarism is considered academic misconduct (refer to Student Code of Conduct) and is subject to disciplinary action, even if unintentional. For more information about plagiarism and how to avoid it, view the related Academic Integrity tutorial.
Group Policy
To ensure fairness and to comply with university plagiarism policies, please note the following:
- Ideally, all members of any group project need to be present for the appointment. Only material written by members present will be reviewed.
- Once one member has made an appointment, they can share the link to that session with other members.
Late Policy
To ensure that we provide you with high-quality help, we ask you to be on time for your appointment. If you're more than 30 minutes late to a 60-minute appointment or 10 minutes late to a 30-minute appointment, your appointment will be canceled.
Reschedule or Cancel Appointment
If needed, you can cancel your appointment through the scheduling system. Please cancel as far in advance as you can.