Academic Integrity

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Academic Integrity
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Academic Integrity Northeastern University

• Academic integrity is integral to a successful
  academic experience and important for two
  reasons. First, independent and original
  scholarship ensures that students derive the most
  from their educational experience and the pursuit
  of knowledge. Second, academic dishonesty
  violates the most fundamental values of an
  intellectual community and depreciates the
  achievements of the entire educational community.
• Used with permission March 2007 from the Office
  of Student conduct and Conflict Resolution,
  Academic Honesty and Integrity Policy.
  Northeastern University, Boston, Ma. 2007
• http//www.neu.edu/oscrr/policy.html

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Rationale for academic integrity(as if it were
necessary!)
How strong Is your moral fiber? How proud
are you?

• When you copy, you cheat yourself.
• The consequences are never worth the risk and can
  be life altering.
• It is right to give credit where credit is due.
• Citing gives authority to the information you
  present.
• Citing makes it possible for your readers to
  locate your source. (scholarship).
• Joyce Valenza-Springfield Township High
  School c. 2006

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Cheating includes, but is not limited to

• A.  Cheating An act or attempted act by which a
  student deceives, acts dishonestly, or
  misrepresents work that he/she has produced on an
  academic exercise or attempts to, or assists
  another to misrepresent his/her work.
• 1. Providing or receiving information about all
  or part of an exam, including answers (e.g.,
  telling or texting someone in a subsequent period
  what was on your exam, or being told this
  information)
• 2.  Copying from others
• 3.  Collaborating on a test, quiz, homework
  assignment, or project with others without
  authorization
• 4.  Using unauthorized materials to complete an
  exam or assignment
• 5.  Programming of notes, formulas, or other aids
  into a programmable calculator, electronic
  dictionary, or other electronic device without
  prior authorization
• 6.  Using a communication device such as a cell
  phone, pager, PDA, or electronic translator to
  obtain or share unauthorized information during
  an exam
• 7.  Using online resources such as Web sites or
  e-mail while completing an online exam or
  in-class writing assignment without the
  permission of the teacher

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Cheating includes, but is not limited to.

• 8.  Copying, or allowing another student to copy,
  a computer file that contains another students
  assignment, and submitting it, in part or in its
  entirety, as ones own
• 9.  Taking an exam for another student or
  permitting someone else to take a test for you
• 10.  Allowing others to do research, writing, or
  completion of an assignment e.g., a.  Using the
  services of a commercial term paper company, b. 
  Using the services of another person (family
  member, tutor, content expert, native speaker
  etc.) inappropriately, without acknowledgement
• 11. Submitting substantial portions of the same
  academic work for credit in more than one course
  without consulting the second teacher
• 12. Using invented information or the
  falsification of research or other findings.
• 13. Submitting a paper or other academic
  exercise of false or fictitious data, or
  deliberately and knowingly distorting the true
  nature, origin, or function of such data
• 14. Changing, altering, or being an accessory to
  the changing, or altering of a grade or an answer
  on a graded test or assignment.
• 15. Gaining or providing unauthorized access to
  examination materials.

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Who cheats?

• Some of you do..
• A few of you dont

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Who cheats?

• A 2005 Center for Academic Integrity at Duke
  University study found that 75 of high school
  students admit to cheating, and if you include
  copying homework that number shot to 90.
• McCabe, D. Levels of Cheating and Plagiarism
  Remain High. The Center for Academic Integrity.
  2005. The Center for Academic Integrity. 08 Sept.
  2008 h.asp.

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Excuses
I didnt understand the assignment.
I always cheat.
My parents expect As!
Its okay if I dont get caught!
Everyone does it!
I was too busy to write that paper! (Job, big
game, too much homework!)
This assignment was BORING!
Ive got to get into ??? U.!
My teachers expect too much!
No one cares
Joyce Valenza-Springfield Township High School c.
2006
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Plagiarism is cheating.
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Plagiarism

• B.  Plagiarism The inclusion of anothers words,
  ideas, data, or artistic productions as ones own
  work. This covers unpublished as well as
  published sources.
• Plagiarism includes but is not limited to the
  following examples
• 1.  Quoting/using/cut and pasting another
  persons words, sentences, paragraphs,
  photographs, art, audio, video, or entire work
  without acknowledgment of the source
• 2.  Using another persons ideas, opinions,
  theory, or structure without acknowledgment of
  the source
• 3.  Using resources on a task that is to be
  completed without resources
• 4. Listing sources in a bibliography that were
  not used
• 5. Submitting as your own any academic exercises
  prepared totally or in part by another, when
  collaboration is permitted (The acceptable terms
  of the collaboration and expectations for each
  student in the collaborative group will be
  determined by the teacher).

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How do you avoid plagiarism?

• You must give credit (cite your source)
  whenever you use.
• Words, sentences, paragraphs, photographs, art,
  media files that are not your own work
• Another persons idea, opinion, or theory
• Any facts or statistics that are not common
  knowledge
• Actual quotations
• A paraphrase of facts, opinions, ideas, theory,
  or quotations
• Pictures or photographs that you have not taken
  yourself.
• (Writing Tutorial Services. 5 June 2003.
  Indiana University.
• 12 September 2005 mphlets/
• plagiarism.shtml

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So what happens if you are suspected of
cheating or plagiarizing?

• You will meet with the teacher and provide
  sufficient testimony or documentation to show
  that you did not cheat and/or plagiarize.
• Range of consequences include
• Warnings or Violations
• A verbal warning to student, and a written
  warning or violation submitted to the Academic
  Integrity Board.
• In the case of a warning the students Assistant
  Principal will also be notified, and the
  assignment or test will receive a grade reduction
  or a zero.
• In the case of a violation, the
  parent(s)/guardian(s), the students principal,
  the students counselor, and a National Honor
  Society advisor will be notified, and the
  assignment or test will receive a grade reduction
  or a zero.
• After the third cumulative warning, parents will
  be notified by a member of the Academic Integrity
  board. 3 warningsviolation
• The National Honor Society advisor will be
  notified about multiple warnings a student
  receives.

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What do these people have in common?

• Senator John McCain
• Senator Joe Biden
• Senator Barack Obama
• Governor Sarah Palin

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They all plagiarized

• John McCain paraphrased Wikipedia when describing
  the crisis in Georgia (without giving credit and
  was caught by an editor).
• Joe Biden paraphrased (badly) a speech by the
  head of the British Labor Party in 1987 in his
  bid to be the Democratic nominee (the discovery
  cost him the nomination)
• Barack Obama paraphrased a speech by Deval
  Patrick-just words
• Sarah Palin used a line from a National Review
  columnist in her acceptance speech without giving
  credit

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Real life consequences

• 6/2008. Naperville Principal Jim Caudill, who has
  been with the school district for 34 years, won't
  be returning as principal in the fall. He used
  verbatim a commencement address from a student
  who gave it 11 years earlier.
• 6/2008.Naperville Central High School
  valedictorian Steven Hankong Su plagiarized his
  graduation speech, using a column from The Onion.
  
• 8/1998. Mike Barnicle was forced to resign for
  plagiarism in his columns.
• 11/2002. In a probe of plagiarism at UVA--45
  students were expelled, 3 graduate degrees
  revoked.
• 5/2006 Raytheon directors punished the chief
  executive, William H. Swanson, by taking away
  almost 1 million from his 2006 compensation
  yesterday because he failed to give credit for
  material that was in a management book he wrote.

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Cheating and Workplace Property Deviance
of Cheaters in High School and College who..
Graves, Sharon M. Student Cheating Habits a
Predictor of Workplace Deviance. Journal of
Diversity Management. First Quarter 2008. The
Clute Institute. 08 Sept. 08 http//www.cluteinsti
tute-onlinejournals.com/PDFs/571.pdf
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Cheating and Workplace Productivity Deviance
of Cheaters in High School and College who..
Graves, Sharon M. Student Cheating Habits a
Predictor of Workplace Deviance. Journal of
Diversity Management. First Quarter 2008. The
Clute Institute. 08 Sept. 08 http//www.cluteinsti
tute-onlinejournals.com/PDFs/571.pdf
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University Sanctions

• UMass-failing grade, failing course, suspension,
  or expulsion.
• MIT-probation, suspension, expulsion
• Brandeis-failing grade, transcript, suspension,
  expulsion
• Northeastern-suspension, expulsion, fines,
  community service
• Middlesex Community College-Immediate dismissal.

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A Plagiarism Tutorial

• http//library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/