At Penn State, students may not typically use the same work, or part of the same work, for credit in multiple classes. Do not submit work completed for another class or assignment without getting permission from your current instructor first. That means that, without permission from your current instructor, you may not:
- Change the title of an essay submitted in a previous class and submit it for a current class.
- Take a paper from one class, add new material, and turn it in for another class.
- Copy from a previous assignment and paste into a new assignment.
In some classes, later work builds on earlier work. If an instructor tells you to submit work that originated in another course or from earlier in the semester, then it is not a violation.