Academic Honesty

Ice, Ice Breaker

"3 Main Principles"

• "When you say you did the work yourself, you actually did it.
• When you rely on someone else's work, you cite it. When you use their words, you quote them openly and accurately, and you cite them, too."

"3 Main Principles"

• 3. "When you present research materials, you present them fairly and truthfully. that's true whether the research involves data, documents, or the writings of other scholars."

Intentional Academic dishonesty

What is Plagiarism?

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• Definition of Plagiarism: In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source

Examples of Intentional Academic Dishonesty

• Turning in an essay that was written by anybody else
• Buying an essay on the internet
• Using an essay from a sorority or fraternity "file"
• Paying someone to write an essay for you

Examples of academic Dishonesty

• Using an essay for multiple submissions
• Fabrication of information
• Inadequately citing ideas or words from another source

Consequences for Academic dishonesty

• Grade related penalties
• Additional assignments
• Forced withdrawal from the course

What Causes Intentional Academic Dishonesty?

Why?

• Fear of Failure
• Time-Management Skills
• Pressure to Maintain Academic Standing

What can you do?

• Come to CAPS
• Learning Strategies
• SHAC
• Office Hours

Unintentional Academic Dishonesty

Why Cite?

Ways to Cite

• Note cards/Sticky notes
• Annotated Bibliography
• MLA APA CHICAGO

What is common Knowledge?

What is Common Knowledge?

• Is this information that you know, or that you would expect others to know, without having to look it up?
• Is the information readily available in many sources without documentation?
• Is the information in a general dictionary?

What is Common Knowledge?

• Is it a common saying or expression?
• Is this widely known information about authorship or creation?

Group Work

Collaboration vs. Cheating

• Individual tasks within group projects
• Establish rules and roles within the group
• Seek outside feedback

Strategies for honest work

Strategies

• Summarize (capture main idea and general meaning)
• Review (detail 5W's)
• Annotated Bibliography
• Abstract (state purpose, process, conclusions)

Strategies

• Paraphrase (restating specific ideas or arguments) - Particularly helpful for technical information
• Quotation (support your argument with specific examples)

CHoMP

• Cross out small words
• Highlight important information
• Make notes (truncating, lists, symbols, drawing)
• Put the notes in your words

Blue Jeans

C - Cross out small words

• the, in, with, for, to, and, but, or, on
• however, because, even, rather, as, due to
• What else?

h - Highlight important information

• Origins
• American West
• Democracy
• What else?

m - Make notes

• What kind of "workingmen" ?
• Do blue jeans still have a mystique?
• What else?

P - Put the notes in your words

• There ain't nothing more 'murican than old blue jeans.