GRADUATE CATALOG - The Petroleum Institute

Graduate Catalog | Academic Year 2013 – 2014marks (or better yet, a new caption written in its place). Also, simply rephrasing the text sentence by sentence,but retaining the structure of the initial source text, mandates that the source be cited. Clearly, the best wayto avoid such infractions is to write the first draft of the text naturally and independently, not working closelyfrom any source. Independent of issues of plagiarism and proper citation, this is a valuable exercise: being ableto explain something in one’s own words is good evidence that the writer really does understand the material.In order to learn how to recognize and avoid plagiarism, students should take graduate course COMM501Technical and Scientific Writing and attend workshops organized by the PI Library.Graduation ProcessA student that has fulfilled all of the program requirements for graduation completes a request to graduate form(available from the Registrar’s office and online) that is approved by the Department Chairman and is submitted tothe Registrar’s office. Subsequently, the Registrar’s office provides an academic transcript and a degree audit formto the Department Chairman who performs a final degree check that is concurred by the Dean of the GraduateSchool and certified by the Provost.Page 30