Academic%20integrity

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Academic integrity

• Plagiarism in written assignments is
• Copying anything from anybody into your work
• But brief quotes are OK, as long as you give
  credit to the author
• Plagiarism in programming assignments is
• Copying code from other students or teams
• Downloading code from the web and claiming that
  you wrote it
• But the instructor may provide some code that
  everyone can use

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Why its important to write your own stuff
Learning!
Looks good, less work, but no learning
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Academic integrity - 2

• Plagiarism is a problem
• Several academic dishonesty charges have occurred
  during the past
• Students have been dismissed
• Some solutions
• www.turnitin.com
• Turnitin setup information (COMP 655)
• MOSS (Measure Of Software Similarity)
• Any source files on einstein must be readable
  only by you

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How turnitin.com works

1. I create a class and assignments
2. I provide signup information
3. You create an account (if necessary)
4. You join the class
5. You submit a written assignment
6. Turnitin creates an originality report
7. (if necessary) you revise your assignment and
   re-submit it to the revision assignment turnitin
   creates an originality report for the revision
8. I review your originality report and decide if
   the matching in it is OK
9. I download your assignment from turnitin and
   grade it

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Examples plagiarism and quoting
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This is OK
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that
need a lot of computing power but dont have a
lot of money. According to the web
site, Scientists with computationally-intensive
tasks may be able to use BOINC. A BOINC project
requires just a single Linux server, and can
provide computing power equivalent to a cluster
with tens of thousands of CPUs. 4 Some of the
projects that have used BOINC
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This is also OK
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that
need a lot of computing power but dont have a
lot of money. Scientific projects are often in
this category. To use BOINC, a project only has
to buy one Linux server, which can coordinate
tens of thousands of volunteer computers.
4 Some of the projects that have used BOINC
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This is PLAGIARISM
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that
need a lot of computing power but dont have a
lot of money. Scientists with computationally-inte
nsive tasks may be able to use BOINC. A BOINC
project requires just a single Linux server, and
can provide computing power equivalent to a
cluster with tens of thousands of CPUs. Some of
the projects that have used BOINC
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This is PLAGIARISM also
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that
need a lot of computing power but dont have a
lot of money. Scientists with computationally-inte
nsive tasks may be able to use BOINC. A BOINC
project requires just a single Linux server, and
can provide computing power equivalent to a
cluster with tens of thousands of CPUs. 4 Some
of the projects that have used BOINC
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Yet more PLAGIARISM
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that
need a lot of computing power but dont have a
lot of money. Scientists with computationally-inte
nsive tasks can use BOINC. A BOINC project
requires only a single Linux server. The basic
principle is that many hands make light work and
at lower cost. Some of the projects that have
used BOINC
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Some rules

• You can quote, but the quotes MUST BE
• Introduced as quotes
• Set off with quotation marks
• Referenced
• Brief
• Reference text will often match other documents
• Rubric text will often match other papers
• Scattered, isolated accidental matches may occur
• ANY OTHER COPYING IS FORBIDDEN

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More rules

• You should supply references if you
• Borrowed an idea and expressed it in your own
  words
• Want to use the reference to support your point
• Bottom line guideline if your paper has more
  than 25 matching, theres a good chance that I
  will ask you to revise it.
• Common revisions
• Remove excess quotes
• Shorten quotes
• Remove rubric text
• Re-write sections with high matching

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More info

• Franklin University Bulletin
• CS Honor code
• http//cs.franklin.edu/students/honorcode.php