Academic Integrity
By Timothy Studebaker
Plagiarism and cheating is an arising problem in many schools, and all of them are developing policies to terminate the problem. These policies are called academic integrity policies and address the problems involved in plagiarism and cheating. As defined by Michigan State University, “academic integrity is honesty and responsible scholarship.” This means that students attending that school are creating and using their own ideas in all of their school work, citing all of their sources used in their research, independently completing assignment, or showing and recognizing collaboration, being completely honest during tests, and recording accurate results when completing a lab, or personal research. (Michigan State) Violations of academic integrity includes duplicating answers, changing answers after given back tests, plagiarism, and not citing all sources used in paraphrasing and quotes. (Chapman University) All military academies have an academic policy. The US Naval Academy, the US Air Force Academy, and the US Military Academy at West Point, are the three colleges I address in this essay, and they
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All the academic academies address plagiarism in two different ways, whether it was accidental plagiarism or intentional plagiarism. In regular colleges, in the case of accidental plagiarism, teachers may lower grades or request minor discipline actions. In the case of intentional plagiarism, teachers can refer the students to academic rehabilitation, and all the way up to expulsion. (Trainor) However in military schools there is zero-tolerance. If you are caught cheating you can be unenrolled. If you know of someone cheating, you can be unenrolled. If you think of cheating, but don’t because you are afraid you will get caught, you can be unenrolled. In military academies, the thought is just as bad as the
In the first place, writing at any level is a challenge. It is a process that requires active thinking as well as creativity. Equally important, is the drive to understand what is necessary to inform the reader when using someone else’s work. In his findings, Gabriel begins with examples of students that committed plagiarism in colleges both unknowingly and intentionally. After exploring the opinions of writing tutors and officials in these situations, he suggests that many students fail to realize that plagiarism is a crime (Gabriel). He relies on the expert opinions of educators who deal with these situations on a daily basis. One such opinion mentioned, is that of Teresa Fishman, the director for the Center of Academic Integrity at Clemson University (Gabriel). She stated, “It’s possible to believe this information is just out there for anyone to take” (qtd. in Plagiarism Lines). This is said in reference to how easy technology has made “copying” and “pasting” of information according to Gabriel. He visits both sides of the fence, so to speak, concerning the views...
The first thing observers will notice is the “readability issue” when they read George Brown College’s student code of conduct and discipline, in particular, the part of the definition of plagiarism. It is full of long and wordy sentences, which can make readers confused and disoriented. Seneca College’s academic honesty, on the contrary, has a highly ordered structure so that readers can see the flow of the rules. It is arranged in order that why the academic honesty policy has been written and what types of things might be regarded as academic honesty
Students show bad academic integrity by cheating. but cheating has a wide range of examples. Most people think of cheating to be copying someone’s work, or using a study guide on a test, but it can mean much more than that. Students now have
Academic honesty is defined as the use of one's own work, this includes thoughts, materials and workings, in the endeavours of writing papers, taking exams (online or campus based), and other assessable material (Harder, 2014). Academic integrity is the ethical policy of academia. This includes values such as prevention of plagiarism; upholding a high academic standard; honesty and rigour in research (Kirk, 1996). Plagiarism is one of many dishonesties that occurs and is the most common. In 2010, Johanson published an article that stated there may be a correlation with the recent abundance of technology and the rise of student dishonesty. "Access to high-technology has made cheating more convenient, flexible, and efficient…”(Johanson, 2010)
Why do so many people use 123HelpMe.com simply to plagiarize other people's writing? Is it even possible that someone cannot write their own essay, or that someone cannot read a book of any length? If you plagiarize, aren't you sentencing yourself to failure? And if you cannot gather information, aren't you opening yourself to attacks from the System?
In the following sections, I will discuss what I believe plagiarism to be, the penalties for academic dishonesty, my own personal reason why I want to avoid academic dishonesty, and the tools Franklin University offers to all of their students to avoid plagiarism. I will be providing you with the definitions of plagiarism and academic dishonesty that Franklin University uses in their Academic Bulletin. I hope you find this informative and helpful in your career goal at Franklin University. Part One – My Thoughts Let me start of by telling you what my idea of plagiarism means, I believe it means using someone else’s work, copying word for word from the source and not giving credit where credit is due. If caught plagiarizing, you can pay a pretty
The Army Ethic encourages officers and leaders across the profession to “develop character by educating, training, and inspiring all who serve to adhere to, internalize, and uphold the Army Ethic as their own.” One of the roles of a captain or any officer is to ensure that the profession’s values and heritage is upheld and continued. Officers ensure that the values instilled in them through the Army Ethic are maintained by all who serve in the profession. One of the main reasons we have stewardship in our profession is that “we live by and uphold the Army Ethic, embracing our shared identity as trusted Army professionals.” Officers embracing our shared identity ensures that we will continue to be experts and stewards of our profession. The Army Ethic is the shared identity all officers have and carry which inspires us to practice stewardship of the Army
On a research paper, how much information can you “borrow” with or without citing the original author? How do you cite the resources you “borrowed” or quoted from the original author? Will anyone know if you submit a friend’s research paper? No one can see you taking an online test from your living room – should that change how you take a test?
The idea of academic integrity is based on the commitment to foster a professional and ethical environment based on guiding principles that require a student to produce honest, hard work. It is essential to the success of a university's and institution’s education and research missions, and violations of such policies constitute serious offenses not only with the perpetrator, but also with the entire community.
Academic integrity has been a major concern among many colleges and universities across the world. Many people may ask the question: what is academic integrity? University of Missouri’s Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities (n.d.) states, “Academic integrity is the core set of values and principles that underwrites the very mission of the University itself; integrity, honesty, hard work, and the determination to translate personal and professional principles into behavior.” Some also may view academic integrity as the act of sustaining honest and rightful behavior in an academic setting that avoids, prevent and provide disciplinary actions for those who commits academic dishonesty, plagiarism and cheating of any kind. Majority of college and universities in all disciplines has academic ethics and honesty policies for all students regardless of their academic statues as undergraduate or graduate students. For example, Webster University’s Statement of Ethics (n.d.) for both graduate and undergraduate programs says, “Those who elect to partici...
As students of high school and college, and even in the professional world, we are asked to research and write on subjects that are seen to be important. The research that we are asked to do, has been done many times in the past, which means people are bound to use others’ ideas and words with no recognition, sometimes without even knowing it. This leads to plagiarism, which is something many people have heard of, but never learned the true definition and the harm it can create. Schools and society need to be more proactive in explaining what plagiarism is, how to write correctly in order to prevent it, and teach the consequences plagiarism has.
Academic knowledge is the basis on which future prosperity, and financial security has been determined. As a consequence, students feel inclined to perform above average in school. Now, as students perform less and less, they sink to obtain good grades by cheating. This method to acquire the desired grades will only harm the student, instead of the imagined result. Prompted by a child’s inability to perform basic tasks throughout his education , academic cheating spawns numerous negative consequences.
Academic Integrity and the Honor Code In today’s academic world, technology integrates with education more and more each day. This leads to phenomenal educational possibilities, but also increases the inevitable likelihood of academic dishonesty. Time and time again, scholars have been caught cheating, plagiarizing, and acting without integrity in order to secure their places in the educational hierarchy.
Academic integrity We should all practice Integrity in our personal, academic, and professional lives, but unfortunately for some it’s not always the case. Usually when you hear the word integrity, similar words like honesty, truthfulness, kindness and fairness come to mind. After reading Professor Bill Taylor’s “A letter to My Students”, open letter, I have gained a better perspective on I should take integrity in my academic journey more seriously than I have been.
Plagiarism is a serious offense and a growing trend in our society today. Some may associate plagiarism with the idea of taking someone else’s writing and making it their own. In fact plagiarism involves anything that is copied or taken and said to be of your own work. Dictionary.com defines plagiarism as “the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work, as by not crediting the author”. In fact this definition covers all types of cheating and misrepresentation of ones own work. There are many numbers and statistics that can be found on the amount of individuals that have admitted to cheating. Perhaps the most astounding number is one that was reported by Moeck in 2002 aloft of 40% of higher education students commit academic dishonesty. This number I’m sure has grown since this report and will continue to grow with the development of the Internet. There are a number of ideas and strategies that can be employed in order to stop this ever-growing phenomenon. As teachers and adults, we are responsible for stopping this trend and educating students about the consequences and dangers of plagiarism. I believe there are a variety of reasons individuals plagiarize. First, students are insecure with their own ability; they don’t believe they can do the work therefore they take others. Second, students believe they can get away with the act because they know others who have plagiarized, and there were not any consequences. Lastly, students are uneducated on what plagiarism is and do not know the consequences of their actions if they commit an act. These ideas will be the focus of the position taken on plagiarism in today’s academic society.