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Academic Integrity 101
Truth and Consequence: A
Demonstration of Academic
Integrity
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Survey Says…
Academic Integrity consists
of students conducting
themselves in a truthful and
responsible manner to
achieve their learning
potential and uphold the
honesty of the learning
environment.
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Did you Know This?
• It is illegal to break
copyright by reproducing
someone else’s expression
of ideas or information
without permissionincluding music, images,
written words, video and
other media forms.
- www.plagiarism.org
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Or this?
• All works are now copyright
protected with or without the
copyright symbol
• Anyone who reproduces
copyright material improperly
can be persecuted in a court
of law regardless of how it has
been altered- if it can be
proven substantially similar to
the original work
www.plagiarism.org
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Are We All on the Same Page?
Plagiarism, as paraphrased from multiple
sources*, is the use of, presentation or
submission of others’ words, work,
research, ideas, pictures, visuals,
diagrams, lyrics, etc. as though they
were your own without giving credit or
explicit citation to the original source.
*See works cited at end of presentation for sources used in
paraphrase*
NOTE: any time you borrow from an
original source and do not give
proper credit you have committed
plagiarism and violated … copyright
laws
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Specific Means of Plagiarizing
• changing around a few words and
phrases;
•
changing the order of the original’s
sentences – aka mosaic plagiarism;
• simply replacing a few words for a
source by using a thesaurus;
• summarizing, paraphrasing copy and
pasting ideas and facts while failing to
cite a source for the details;
All details are pulled from all of the academic institution documents
listed in works cited
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• using another student’s work and claiming it
as your own, even with permission;
• allowing another student to complete
laboratory or field work for you;
• quotation marks are not indicated to show
borrowed work;
• quotations from a lecture or interview are not
directly attributed to the speaker;
• visuals or graphics are used from an outside
source and no citation has been
demonstrated.
All details are pulled from all of the academic institution documents listed in works cited
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Plagiarism’s Partners in Crime
Cheating – an attempt to gain an improper
advantage in an academic evaluation
[including]:
_________________________________________________
• obtaining a copy of a [test or] an examination
before it is officially available;
•
learning a question before it is officially
available;
•
copying another person’s answer;
•
having unauthorized materials or electronic
devices during a test or exam;
•
being in possession of materials other than
those designated by the course instructor (a
“cheat sheet” that is not approved for the
test/exam);
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• Copying answers from a peer during a test or
examination;
• lending work or working together on a project
that has not been assigned or approved as a
group effort;
• The submission of a project, assignment,
homework, or essay that was written by or
purchased from another, as your own work;
• Handing in the same or substantially similar
work for evaluation in more than one course
without teacher permission to do so (dual
submission);
• re-submitting work, in whole or part, for which
evaluation has already been awarded.
All details are pulled from all of the academic institution documents listed in works cited
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Impersonation – having someone pose as you
either in person or electronically to:
_________________________________
• take a test or examination;
• take part in any other type of assignment in a
course on your behalf;
• Helping another individual to impersonate
another for a test or examination.
All details are pulled from all of the academic institution documents listed in works cited
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Falsification – altering of or making up information
in documents to distort the truth of their
contents in order to gain any type of
academic advantage including:
____________________________________________
• Submitting false medical certificates;
• Parent/guardian notes and or signatures;
• tampering with results in lab experiments or
research assignments;
• Changing grades or answers on an assignment
for the purpose of re-grading
• Tampering with transcripts or documents used
to make decisions about admissions to post –
secondary institutions including mark reports,
letters of admission, essays for admission and
letters of reference.
All details are pulled from all of the academic institution documents listed in works cited
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To Be Clear –
“Students at Maple High School
are expected to think
independently and work
honestly. Each student must
develop habits that contribute
to genuine academic,
personal, and social growth. All
students are expected to be
honest academically.”
“Academic Integrity”. Maple High School Agenda. (30)
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Common Knowledge:
The Saving Grace
“When facts are well known or when ideas
are commonly held in a discipline, there is
no need to document their source. Often,
the original source of this type of
information is either unknown, or
inconsequential”
Simple put, these facts can be found in many
places and are likely to be known by
many people.
_______________________________
I.E. American federal politics is based on a
two party system
- (41) Notes on the Preparation of Essays in the Arts and Sciences 4th Edition
Academic Skills Centre, Trent University
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Punishment That Fits The Crime
• Most academic institutions
have policies and
procedures for punishment
surrounding plagiarism
and/or academic
dishonesty.
• The severity of punishment
is determined by the
degree of dishonesty, the
intent behind it and the
institutions position on it.
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Penalties at Maple
If the teacher documents a
case of [academic
dishonesty], the
Department Head and the
[administration] will be
informed. The student’s
parent(s) or legal
guardian(s) will be notified
immediately.
“Academic Integrity”. Maple High School Agenda. (30)
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The following penalties, singly or in
combination shall be imposed:
• Oral or written reprimand;
• A make-up assignment;
• A failing grade or mark of
zero;
• A mark of zero for a test or
exam on which cheating
occurs.
“Academic Integrity”. Maple High School Agenda. (30)
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Keep in mind
If you choose to commit any form
of academic dishonesty you
are jeopardizing your
education – be it through
• a zero on an assignment
(altering your overall grade),
• failing a course, being expelled
from an institution,
• having the indiscretion
permanently reflected on your
transcripts,
• no admittance to another
institution for the duration of
your expulsion from one.
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For Instance
Read All About it…
(it’s in really small print so I will
read it to you)
Following article from globeandmail.com – Tuesday,
October 22, 2002.
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October 22, 2002
Plagiarized tutor's work, B.C. students suspended
By Robert Matas
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Business and economics students at Simon Fraser University had a tough lesson in ethics
yesterday.
Caught cheating, 44 students were suspended for plagiarizing a tutor's work in an assignment.
In one of the worst cases of academic dishonesty at a Canadian university, the students were
failed in the course and received suspensions ranging from one semester to four semesters,
depending on the extent of their plagiarism.
The suspensions will be noted on the students' transcripts, and any courses taken at other
postsecondary institutions during the suspensions are not eligible for transfer credit to Simon
Fraser University.
Cheating is not particularly a problem in the area of business, Roger Blackman, acting dean of
arts, said yesterday in an interview. "This just happens to be in business," he said.
Cheating is an issue in every academic institution, he added.
However, the suspensions at the business school occur as several prominent business leaders
face allegations of wrongdoing and politicians and activists are demanding new ethical standards
for commerce.
Last year, 17 law students from the University of Toronto were suspended for making up grades
on summer-job applications. Twenty-one students at the University of British Columbia were
punished last year for academic dishonesty.
Earlier this year, 29 third-year engineering students at Carleton University in Ottawa received a
mark of zero on a plagiarized paper they submitted. Most of the text was lifted directly from the
Internet.
The university also wanted to show support for those who do not cheat and to show those
outside the university that dishonest students will be disciplined, he said.
The plagiarism involved about 10 per cent of students in a business-administration and
economics course required for graduation.
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Pleading Ignorance
“not knowing” is no excuse.
• If you are innocent, your
ideas will not be a direct
reflection of the original.
• “accidental” plagiarism
may stem from reading
something that you have
read and forgotten, but still
makes you guilty!
- paraphrased from www.plagiarism.org
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Avoidance Techniques
Give credit whenever you use:
• another person’s idea, opinion
or theory;
• any facts, statistics, graphs,
drawings – any piece of
information- that are not
common knowledge;
• quotations of another person’s
actual spoken or written words;
or
• paraphrase another person’s
spoken or written words.
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• Put in quotations everything that comes
directly from the text especially when taking
notes.
• Paraphrase but be sure to not just rearrange
words.
• Check your paraphrase against the original
text to be sure you have not “accidentally”
used the same phrase or words and that the
information is accurate.
- Previous slide and three details from www.indiana.edu
• Be specific about what is taken from each
source. (MHS Agenda)
• Study, finish work in time for deadlines, speak
with teachers about expectations, clarify
research, assignment details and issues you
encounter in the process of completion.
• Do not put yourself in a position of having to
rely on dishonest means to achieve success.
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Final Thoughts
• Academic dishonesty
jeopardizes your learning
• With plagiarism often the
meaning of the original text is
lost because of its improper use
in the new version.
Consider this:
How would you feel if your brilliant
idea that stems from hours of
hard work and research was
“pirated” by someone and
using it totally out of context?
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Critical Thinking is the foundation
of all courses in the English
Department. Why would you trust
and leave what you have to say
up to someone else?
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Extra Support
• In case you are still not sure…
http://www.indiana.edu
http://www.plagiarism.org
Access any post-secondary
institution’s site. They will have
an academic code of conduct
section that outlines their
definitions, policies and
procedures surrounding
academic integrity (plagiarism
and all forms of academic
honesty).
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Works Cited
All information for this presentation is paraphrased or taken
directly from the following sources:
www.douglas.bs/about/policies/edu/academdis.html#Definitions
www.humber.ca/sites/www.humber.ca/files/2009
http://www.indiana.edu
Maple High School Student Agenda
www.nipissingu.ca/calendar/studentpolicies
Notes on the Preparation of Essays in the Arts and Sciences 4th
Edition Academic Skills Centre, Trent University
www.plagiarism.org
www.senecac.on.ca/academic-policy/appe.html
Adapted details from St. Joan of Arc C.H.S, 2000-2001
www.trentu.ca/deanundergraduate/documents/AcademicIntegrityPolicyDec22008.pdf
www.yorku.ca/secretariat/legislation/senate/acadhone.htm
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In Closing
Please do not underestimate
your teacher’s ability to
detect plagiarism.
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I would prefer even to fail with
honour than win by cheating.
- Sophocles
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