Academic Integrity

I came to know that academic integrity is a major thing that depends on few values like honesty and responsibility of our work. We need to make sure everything what we are doing or writing is in our own.

After having read the Academic Integrity policy and everything that it includes, I would have to state that my understanding of this policy is that it is a policy of pure honesty and trust. This policy, to my understanding, is exactly what it says it is. This policy is all about integrity. Integrity, by my definition, is doing what is right when nobody is watching. In other words, integrity is doing what is expected of you, even if/when you are by yourself. Integrity encompasses a large group of admirable traits, such as trustworthiness, honesty, and good morals. So, when applying integrity into school, the Academic Integrity policy comes into play.

The issue of plagiarism is not new; however, access to material through different types of websites and sources are always available to the public. Plagiarism is copying, either intentionally or unintentionally, other people’s work. It is a form of cheating and if you do it you will be committing an academic offense. When you decide to copy and paste someone’s thoughts and turn it in for a grade, unfortunately, you have plagiarized.

Academic integrity is not only fundamental to assessment practices done at school, but also serves as a backbone for individual learning and development. According to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), “Honesty is the foundation of good academic work”(Brennecke, 2015, p. 3). Therefore, it is important to note that academic dishonesty of any kind will always violate the most fundamental values of an intellectual community and undermine the achievements of the entire university. (Northeastern University [NEU] office of student conducts and conflict resolution, 2014). The fact that universities have Academic Integrity Policy, decision making, and review processes that relates to academic integrity, these aspects do not always reflect

Academic integrity is being honest and reliable on any assignment. Another meaning for academic integrity will be no plagiarizing or cheating on any assignments. To me academic integrity means to not cheat on any school work no matter how easy or hard it is. Academic integrity is important because a person that has academic integrity is really trustworthy and know to do what is correct. It’s also important because as person it shows that you can do anything without cheating and even if you get a bad grade you still know you were honest on that assignment and you know you can do better next time without the need to cheat. I don’t think it is right to cheat because if someone cheat then that person is getting all the credit when they didn’t even

Plagiarism is a very common mistake many writers can make without even realizing it. As a college student my academic integrity is very important to me. A person’s academic integrity is the hard work and honesty that represents someone. Plagiarism is something that I believe that can be intentional or unintentional based on the circumstances for the writer. As a beginning writer I remember not feeling comfortable citing sources because I didn’t believe I was doing it correctly. Or perhaps the idea when I was researching for a topic I was putting writing in my own words, but somehow I could’ve made another author’s words similar to my own without thinking about it. Plagiarism in most cases is intentional. My definition is the act of stealing

The first idea to understand about cheating is the many forms of how they are carried out. As technology has grown and evolved to what it is today, it has opened many more ways of cheating to occur and causes the temptation to be much easier to pursue. But first, there is the most basic form of cheating that we all know and it is by simply looking off another student’s paper. Whether it would be for homework or a test, it is more commonly used to copy for a test. Next, students may get together and have one person to one half of the homework while the other does the other half, then they both exchange papers and copy each others answers. Through the wonderful world of technology, cheating and plagiarizing is very easy to encounter, even without us realizing it. Students use Internet sources to look up answers for school work and use those answers as their own. What they fail to do is properly source their information. When this happens, they do not give credit to the information source, and it could cost the student a zero for the schoolwork, in the class, or worse they get

1. & 2. After taking the Academic Integrity Tutorial my results were 75% resulting in failure. My weakest area was " What is plagiarism?" I summarized the question with my definition of plagiarism. The answer given was very similar but nt word for word which resulted in n incorrect answer.

"Plagiarism is deliberate or unintentional use of someone else's work without acknowledging it, giving the reader the impression that it's your own work." Out of the four cases, I think the most severe violations of academic integrity was case number two. Case number two stated that a student turned in a paper that was identical to a paper submitted by another student for a different course. I rated the severity of this case as a ten on a one to ten scale (ten is the highest). The consequence for this student should be writing the essays on campus with no cell phone or other outside resources available. The suspicion of plagiarism could have been avoided by the student writing his own paper. Taking credit for someone else’s work is unacceptable.

People do dishonest actions that harm the integrity of their work and others for the strangest reasons. Due to these various motivations, they resort to tactics such as cheating, lying, stealing and thievery. In contrast, honest people exemplify academic integrity. Academic integrity is harmed by cheating and plagiarism; they are forms of thievery.

Currently, my understanding of academic integrity is that we all have self-responsibility for our work, our learning, and giving credit to the work of others. It’s an honor system that, if broken and caught, could have severe consequences for whomever responsible. There is no learning in copying another’s work, which is why we put it in our own words; it makes the meaning behind the work easier for us to understand and recall.

Academic integrity could be seen as the backbone to learning. By achieving academic integrity you are committing the five fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. Through these values students should be able to promote an ideal learning process and develop self-growth and confidence. However, at times it can seem easier to ignore these values and students can come face to face with conflicting issues such as plagiarism, cheating and fraud. This dishonesty will only achieve a shortcut around your studies and will rob you of the benefits that those who completed the assignment with the fundamental values in mind, are now experiencing.

1. Academic dishonesty is an unacceptable and an improper attitude that happen from some students in their academic lives. It considered an unsuitable moral behavior that grows in a group of people without conscience in their hearts and minds. The common traits in these people are careless, lazy, rely on others, and not confident in themselves. The process of stealing someone's efforts without permission is considered an obvious example of academic dishonesty. The efforts that are stolen have many types such as author's books, scientific magazines, internet websites, and others of cheating types. Moreover, it is illegal and leads to unsatisfactory consequences that affect the people who did these incorrect behaviors.

My first semester in college as a freshman in English 1101 was nothing less than a major eye opener of how serious academic dishonesty really is. One of my classmates and his girlfriend were both expelled for partaking in plagiarism. He allowed

The claim is made, frequently, that failures of academic integrity (we shall soon discuss the proper terminology) are not, strictly speaking, unethical. This claim is made on a variety of foundations. Some will claim that as they are customers and the university their contractor, it is up to them to dictate the terms of their relationship, that is, because they are the ones paying money, it is up to them to decide how they should interact with the university. Others will claim that they are not really hurting anyone (usually defining “anyone” as their fellow students) or that the harm they inflict is sufficiently minor as to be negligible. Still others may claim that they are doing the best they can to ensure their survival within a broken system, and that the brokenness of the higher education system is sufficient ethical grounds for subverting that very system. In this paper, we shall grant these students one of their chief suppositions: that in order for something to be wrong, there must be some real harm – but we will also go further than this. We will not show merely that there is harm, but that the harm that arises from academic dishonesty is without justification ethically speaking. In short, we will demonstrate that there is harm that arises from academic dishonesty; that this harm affects: 1) the person cheating, 2) the fellow students of the cheater, 3) the university at which the student is cheating, and 4) the general public;