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What is Academic
Dishonesty?
Using someone else's
words, work and/or ideas and claiming them as your own.
It is important that
each teacher discuss what academic dishonesty means within their own classroom.
It will vary from teacher to teacher and subject to subject. If you aren't
certain what the rules are it is your responsibility to ask.
Most examples of cheating
are black and white. However, there may be some cases where it is harder
to determine. For example, Is it OK for form study groups and share notes,
ask each other questions? Some teachers may prohibit study groups and
others say study groups are fine. That is why it's important to ask if
you are not clear.
Examples of
Academic Dishonesty
- Hiring someone
to write a paper
- Buying a paper
or project (this is plagiarism)
- Sharing files in
a business class
- Copying math homework
- Building on someone
else's ideas without proper citations (this is also plagiarism)
- Turning in someone
else's journal (plagiarism again)
- Letting your science
lab partner do all the work and putting your name on the final report
- Letting parents
complete a project for you
How to Avoid
Plagiarism(1)
Choosing
When to Give Credit
| Need
to Document |
No Need
to Document |
| When you are using or referring to somebody else's words or ideas
from a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web page,
computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium |
When you are writing your own experiences, your own observations,your
own insights, your own thoughts, your own conclusions about a subject |
| When you use information gained through interviewing another person |
When you are using folklore, common sense observations, shared information
within your field of study or cultural group |
When you copy the exact words or a "unique phrase"
from somewhere |
When you are compiling generally accepted facts |
| When you use ideas that others have given you in conversation |
When you are writing up your own experimental results |
| When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, and pictures |
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If you have determined the need to cite the source(s) you
have used, go to OSLIS Citation
Maker .
There
are templates with the bibliographic information needed to cite different
types of resources. Complete the templates as needed and click on "Save
Citation" for each one. When you have completed a template for each
of your sources, click on "Show My Citations". Instructions
are included to cut and paste into your own document.
Making
Sure You Are Safe
| When paraphrasing and summarizing |
First, write your paraphrase and summary without looking
at the original text. so you rely only on your memory |
Begin your summary with a statement giving credit to
the source: According to Jonathan Kozol. . . Put any unique words
or phrases that you cannot change, or do not want to change, in quotation
marks. . . "savage inequalities" exist through- out our
educational. . . |
| When quoting directly |
Keep the person's name near the quote in your notes, and in your
paper |
Mention the person's name either at the beginning of the quote,
in the middle, or a the end. Put quotation marks around the text that
you are quoting. Indicate added phrases in brackets ([]) and omitted
text with ellipses (. . .) |
| When quoting indirectly |
Keep the person's name near the text in your notes, and in your
paper
Rewrite the key ideas using different words and sentence structures
than the author |
Mention the person's name either at the beginning of the information,
or in the middle, or at the end. Double check to make sure that your
words and sentence structures are different than the original text. |
(1)Taken from Purdue University's Web site: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r?plagiar.html
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