Does intellectual dishonesty control you . . .

. . . or can you control it?

Intellectual Honesty:

How to Avoid Even the Suspicion

of Intellectual Dishonesty

or

What is Intellectual Dishonesty?

To imply that the WORDS or IDEAS of another person are your own.

Why Intellectual Honesty?

Courtesy Credibility Legality Personal Integrity

Courtesy

It is right to give credit to others for their work.

Credibility

Scholars build on each other’s work, one small step at a time. The more people (citations from different authors) you find that agree with you, the more powerful your own argument becomes.

Legality

It is illegal to copy another’s words or ideas; you could lose credit for your work, get expelled, or spend a lot of money or some time in jail.

Personal Integrity

Self-esteem suffers if you lie and cheat.

Copying another student’s paper.Buying a paper.Having your parents write your paper.

The Worst Forms of Intellectual Dishonesty

How We DetectIntellectual Dishonesty

Turnitin.comVoice

Turnitin.com

Turnitin.com checks your paper against online sources and other student’s papers both from this year and past years.

Teachers receive a report that includes links to passages that may have been plagiarized.

It’s a Matter of Voice

Each person has his or her own voice.

When you write in-class essays, we hear your voice.

When the voice changes, we suspect plagiarism.

Example of a Change in Voice

In addition, these fears had peoples live woried lives. The imadgination has not limits, it can think of anything that can maybe even distroy a person. Scientists posit that in many cultures, people fiddle obsessively with worry beads, polished stones and other objects. The brain-wave patterns this occupation produces are the same as those of a mind made calm by repeated touch stimulation.

Copying Rearranging Paraphrasing Misrepresenting

Forms of Intellectual Dishonesty

Copying

Word - for - word copying is the most obvious form of intellectual dishonesty.

It includes copying of answers on tests or homework.

Original Text: “I observed kissing couples in public places - international airports, large railway stations, beaches and parks - in the United States, Germany and Turkey. . . . Of 124 kissing pairs, 80 (or 64.5%) turned their heads to the right and 44 (or 35.5%) turned to the left.” Intellectual Dishonesty:One scientist writes that when he watched 124 kissing pairs, 64.5% turned their heads to the right and 35.5% turned to the left. He watched them in airports, railway stations, beaches and parks.

Correcting Copying

Intellectual Honesty:One scientist writes that when he watched “124 kissing pairs, . . . 64.5% turned their heads to the right and . . . 35.5% turned to the left.” He watched them in “. . . airports, . . . railway stations, beaches and parks” (Güntürkün 711 ).

Rearrangingor Mosaic Plagiarism

Selecting phrases, sentences or longer passages from another author and concealing them among one's own language.

Original Text: Feelings of passionate love . . . are believed to stimulate the same type of brain activity as parachuting, bungee jumping, distance running or other sports activities. . . . Neurotransmitters attach to the so-called pleasure receptors in the brain to create feelings of euphoria, giddiness, elation and the like.

Intellectual Dishonesty: Chemicals, called neurotransmitters, attach to pleasure receptors in the brain, resulting in euphoria, giddiness, elation and such. Feelings of passion cause a surge of chemicals in the brain similar to those brought on by parachuting, bungee jumping, distance running and other sports activities.

Correcting Mosaic Plagiarism

Intellectual Honesty: Chemicals, called “neurotransmitters, attach to . . . pleasure receptors in the brain, [resulting in] euphoria, giddiness, elation and [such].” . . . “Feel-ings of passion” cause a surge of chemicals in the brain similar to those brought on by “parachuting, bungee jumping, distance running [and] other sports activities” (Miana in Bhatt online).

Paraphrasing

Restating another person's writing or ideas in one's own words without giving credit to the person whose ideas you are using.

Correcting Paraphrasing

Intellectual Dishonesty:Two out of every three couples rotate their faces clockwise when they kiss.

Original Text:Of 124 kissing pairs, 80 (or 64.5%) turned their heads to the right and 44 (or 35.5%) turned to the left.

Intellectual Honesty: Two out of every three couples rotate their faces clockwise when they kiss (Güntürkün 711 ).

Misrepresenting

Leaving out important words (such as “not”) or using information that was never meant to apply to your subject.

Correcting Misrepresenting

Intellectual Dishonesty:“By turning to the right, people can line up the left-hand side of their faces, . . . ‘which governs intense emotion’” (Rogers in Salleh) . . . So “those who kiss to the left are . . . less emotionally [involved and] their kisses [are] more calculated” (Salleh).

Original Text:By turning to the right, people can line up the left-hand side of their faces; this is known to be controlled by the right hemisphere which governs intense emotion . . . . If this is the case, it raises questions about those who kiss to the left … are they less emotionally intense? Are their kisses more calculated or cerebral, she wonders.

Intellectual Honesty:Some people wonder if people “who kiss to the left are . . . less emotionally intense . . . and their kisses are more calculated [because] by turning to the right, people can line up the left-hand side of their faces, . . . which ‘governs intense emotion’” (Rogers in Salleh).

Definition Copying another student’s work (including from the computer) or test answers, use of cheat sheets, copyright violation, plagiarism (the taking of another person’s finals, interpretations or tests and intentionally presenting them as one’s own without proper attribution).

Minimum: Conference, parent notification, NO CREDIT for assignment in question.

Maximum: 10 day suspension.

RM and MCPS PolicyFrom the Spin Book

Ensuring Intellectual Honesty

Take good notes Turn in your outline and drafts so

we can look them over. Revise or do more research when

we ask you to. Give yourself plenty of time, and . .

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Cite

Learn when to cite. Cite correctly using

MLA format. When in doubt, cite.

Now who is in control?

You are!

Works Cited

Bhatt, Rob. "News: The Science of Kissing." Las Vegas Weekly 15 Mar.

2001. 4 Nov. 2005 <http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/depart

ments/04_07_99/news_kissing.html>.

Güntürkün, Onur. "Adult Persistence of Head-turning Asymmetry."

Nature 421 (2003): 711. ProQuest Platinum. RMHS,

Rockville. 4 Nov. 2005. Keyword: Kiss.

Salleh, Anna. "Kissing to the Left: Is it less ‘Emotional'?" ABC Science

Online. 14 Feb. 2003. 4 Nov. 2005 <http://www.abc.net.au/

science/news/stories/s783848.htm>.