Offering the work of another as one's own without proper acknowledgment is plagiarism; therefore, any dental hygiene and dental student who fails to give credit for quotations or essentially identical material taken from books, magazines, encyclopedias, or other reference works, or from the themes, reports, or other writings of a fellow dental hygiene and dental student has committed plagiarism. CDM students should become familiar with any standing policies differing from these general expectations as per their academic department and/or school.