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Created By: A.Kelly, 2009

Academic Integrity 101

Truth and Consequence: A Demonstration of Academic Integrity


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.


Did you Know This?

• It is illegal to break copyright by reproducing someone else’s expression of ideas or information without permission-including music, images, written words, video and other media forms.

- www.plagiarism.org


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


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


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


• 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.



Plagiarism’s Partners in CrimeCheating – 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);


• 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.



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.



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.



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)


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


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.


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.



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.



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.


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.


October 22, 2002 Plagiarized tutor's work, B.C. students suspended By Robert MatasFrom 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.


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


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.


• 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.

http://www.indiana.edu/


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?


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?


Extra Support• In case you are still not sure…http://www.indiana.eduhttp://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).


Works CitedAll information for this presentation is paraphrased or

takendirectly from the following sources:

www.douglas.bs/about/policies/edu/academdis.html#Definitionswww.humber.ca/sites/www.humber.ca/files/2009http://www.indiana.eduMaple High School Student Agendawww.nipissingu.ca/calendar/studentpolicies Notes on the Preparation of Essays in the Arts and Sciences 4th

Edition Academic Skills Centre, Trent Universitywww.plagiarism.orgwww.senecac.on.ca/academic-policy/appe.htmlAdapted details from St. Joan of Arc C.H.S, 2000-2001www.trentu.ca/deanundergraduate/documents/AcademicIntegrityPolicy-

Dec22008.pdf

www.yorku.ca/secretariat/legislation/senate/acadhone.htm


In Closing

Please do not

underestimate your teacher’s ability to detect plagiarism.


I would prefer even to fail with honour than win by cheating.

- Sophocles

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