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Ten Golden Rules of Academic Integrity
- Do not plagiarise someone else's words, ideas, or data. Always cite
your sources. Never purchase, copy, or download essays. [click
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If you are taking
an author’s own words you must indicate this by using quotation
marks and show where the words came from. Here is a sample: “Doctors’
deep suspicion of what they read in the newspapers and even in the
less-carefully edited of the medical journals, helps to explain some
of the early skepticism about insulin in countries like Britain”
(Bliss, 1982, p.190). Even if you use your own words to express
the same idea you still must cite your source. For example,
if you were to paraphrase the above idea you might say something like
this: Insulin as a treatment for diabetes was not widely accepted
at first because doctors found it hard to believe in the legitimacy
of medical discoveries as reported both by newspapers and by some
less academic medical journals (Bliss, 1882, p.190).
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- Do not copy. This means don’t copy assignments, exam answers,
lab reports, theses, journal articles, or computer code.
- Do not fabricate data, citations, or experimental results. [click
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Your professor asked
for ten articles in your reference list but you have only found eight.
If you pad your list by including articles you have not read you are
committing academic misconduct. If things aren't working out well
with your lab and you invent some of your data, that is academic misconduct
too.
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- Do not use unauthorised aids or assistance in an exam, test, or other
form of academic work. [click
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Some types of calculators,
for example, are not permitted. Nor are PA's, cell phones, or any
notes or books.
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- Know where the boundaries are set in group-work projects. Do not collaborate
on the writing of a paper when each member of the group is required
to submit her/his own individual paper unless otherwise instructed.
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Normally, unless
your group is told to submit a single essay representing everyone's
work, you should each write your paper on your own, crediting other
members for their ideas. If the instructions are unclear, always check
with your instructor to find out what is expected of you.
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- Do not falsify or alter a record, health slip, or grade, or permit
another person to do so.
- Avoid even the suspicion of collusion. Do not allow any possibility
that someone else could copy your work or assignments or exams. You
do not want to be accused of abetting someone else’s academic
misconduct. [click
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Even the person whose work is copied may be considered guilty of academic misconduct if s/he allowed the other person access to personal work.
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- Do not allow others to diminish the value of your honest efforts and
achievements. Report any case of academic misconduct you observe. [click
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We are all responsible for maintaining a culture of academic integrity, so if you know that someone is cheating on an exam or essay, you should report this to someone in authority.
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- Do not deny others the possibility of using academic materials either
by misplacing, defacing, destroying or stealing library materials, altering
computer data, or providing other students with false or misleading
data. [click
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Hiding a library book by placing it with books on another topic or ripping the pages of a journal article out of the journal so that no one else in your class can find it is considered academic misconduct. Similarly, if you change or hide any of the data other students are using for their projects, add something to a chemical used in a lab, or tamper with another student's sculpture, you are guilty of misconduct.
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- Avoid impersonation. This means that you should not allow another
person to assume your identity to write a test, computer quiz or assignment;
nor should you assume the identity of another. Nor should you sign attendance
sheets on behalf of another student. [click
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If your friend can't attend a class or seminar, it is considered to be academic misconduct if you sign his or her name on the attendance sheet.
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Above all, be honest in your dealings with your professors and fellow students.
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