Academic Dishonesty
What you need to know
Adapted from the City University of New York Academic Honesty Policy
https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/legal-affairs/policies-resources/academic-integrity-policy/
Two Essential Elements
Cheating
Plagiarism
Both Have Consequences
Lowered grades or no credit.
Course failure.
Expulsion from college.
Loss of reputation
Cheating
“the unauthorized use or attempted use of material, information, notes, study aids, devices or communication during an academic exercise.”
Cheating
Copying from others and allowing others to copy from you on work turned in for a grade.
Working together without permission from your teacher.
Having someone else do your work for you or doing work for someone else.
Making up data or information that you use in an assignment.
Cheating
Helping someone else to cheat on any assignment.
Using the same piece of work in more than one class without permission.
Using information sources during a test without permission.
Plagiarism
“…presenting another person’s ideas, research or writing as your own.”
Plagiarism
Can be intentional or unintentional.
Unintentional plagiarism is usually the result of carelessness.
However, unintentional plagiarism is still plagiarism!!
Adapted from “What is Plagiarism,” a PowerPoint built for the Roanoke County Public Schools and found at this URL.
https://www.rcps.us/cms/lib/VA01818713/Centricity/Domain/1075/plagiarism%20lesson%20ppt.ppt
Plagiarism
Word-for-word use of someone else’s writing without quotation marks and citation.
Also use of images, video, audio or any other media without attribution.
Both include material found on the internet
Plagiarism
Using someone else’s ideas, theories, and/or research without citation. This includes material on the internet.
Working together on an assignment and not saying so.
Avoiding Plagiarism
Avoid copy and paste.
Paraphrase and summarize.
Write in a voice that is appropriate for the assignment but that is your own!
Adapted from “What is Plagiarism,” a PowerPoint built for the Roanoke County Public Schools and found at this URL.
https://www.rcps.us/cms/lib/VA01818713/Centricity/Domain/1075/plagiarism%20lesson%20ppt.ppt
Avoiding Plagiarism
Put everything you take word-for-word in quotation remarks and cite it.
Take anything paraphrased and cite it.
Cite all statistics, charts, and graphs
Cite all images, video, and other media that aren’t your creations!
Adapted from “What is Plagiarism,” a PowerPoint built for the Roanoke County Public Schools and found at this URL.
https://www.rcps.us/cms/lib/VA01818713/Centricity/Domain/1075/plagiarism%20lesson%20ppt.ppt
Avoiding Plagiarism
Create a Works Cited page that lists every source used.
Omit sources that were reviewed during research but not used in the final product
Adapted from “What is Plagiarism,” a PowerPoint built for the Roanoke County Public Schools and found at this URL.
https://www.rcps.us/cms/lib/VA01818713/Centricity/Domain/1075/plagiarism%20lesson%20ppt.ppt
Avoiding Plagiarism
When in doubt, CITE!!
Adapted from “What is Plagiarism,” a PowerPoint built for the Roanoke County Public Schools and found at this URL.
https://www.rcps.us/cms/lib/VA01818713/Centricity/Domain/1075/plagiarism%20lesson%20ppt.ppt
Works Cited
“Academic Integrity Policy.” https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/legal-affairs/policies-resources/academic-integrity-policy/ Accessed October 22, 2022
“What is Plagiarism,” https://www.rcps.us/cms/lib/VA01818713/Centricity/Domain/1075/plagiarism%20lesson%20ppt.ppt Accessed October 27, 2020