TRANSCRIPT: Your professor assigned the final project that's worth a lot of marks. It's also a requirement to pass the class. You don't know where to begin, and you're worried about finishing on time. You decide to reach out to a friend who took the class last semester to see if they can help. Your friend gets back to you quickly and shares their memory of the course being quite brutal.
They also share with you that they put a lot of work into their final project and received a great mark. They suggest you use the library to get some research help, but you counter asking if they could send you their final project. They're hesitant, but you assure them you won't copy anything and will only take inspiration.
Knowing this, your friend agrees to share their project with you. Several weeks later your friend messages you asking if you had copied their final project. They had received a breach of academic integrity, as someone had submitted work identical to the work they had submitted. You tell them you were confused about the assignment expectations, so you submitted their assignment with a few changes.