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UNV 101: Miami University Regional Libraries: Academic Integrity & Plagiarism

What is Academic Integrity?

"Academic integrity is more than just “not cheating.” Academic integrity is about learning, responsibility, accountability, fairness, respect, honesty, and trust. Ultimately, academic integrity is about the values you hold and that define your character – it is about what you choose to do, even when no one is looking, and it is about creating sound habits for your future.

Academic integrity is important because it is about the choices you make about how you will complete your academic work and be a student at Miami University. It is about practicing the work ethic and responsibility that is expected of you as a student and that will be expected of you in your chosen profession or future educational endeavors. It is about being responsible to yourself, your peers, and your faculty and upholding the values of Miami University – espousing Love & Honor."

From Miami University's Academic Integrity Student Guide

How Does the Library Help Strengthen Academic Integrity?

The goal of the library is to help our student be successful as researchers and scholars. The library works to strengthen the academic integrity by:

  • Providing guidance on conducting research by offering support in the form of research consultations and classroom instruction. 
  • Teaching our students how to ethically participate in scholarly conversation
  • Educating students on how to evaluate information and understanding the information creation life cycle and how it impacts our research
  • Assisting students with citation creation and ensuring student understand the role and importance citations play in scholarly conversation. 

Types of Academic Dishonesty

Cheating using or attempting to use or possessing any aid, information, resources, or means in the completion of an academic assignment that are not explicitly permitted by the instructor or providing such assistance to another student.

Examples of cheating include, but are not limited to:
  • Possessing, referring to, or using in any way unauthorized textbooks, notes, study aids, websites, crib/cheat sheets, or other information during an academic assignment, in paper, electronic, or other format;
  • Possessing, referring to, or using in any way unauthorized electronic devices or other materials during an academic assignment;
  • Looking at or using information from another student’s work during an academic assignment;
  • Receiving answers, information, or materials from another individual in any academic assignment when not explicitly permitted by the instructor;
  • Utilizing or soliciting another person to complete any portion of an academic assignment in place of oneself or submitting the work of another person as one’s own;
  • Submitting the identical or substantially the same assignment or portions thereof to fulfill the requirements for two or more courses without approval of the instructors involved, including when repeating a course; or submitting the identical or substantially the same assignment or portions thereof from a previously completed course to fulfill the requirements for another course without the approval of the instructor of the latter course; or submitting the identical or substantially the same assignment or portions thereof to fulfill the requirements for two or more academic assignments within a course without the approval of the instructor;
  • Completing or participating in the completion of any portion of an academic assignment for another student to submit as his or her own work, including taking a quiz or an examination for another student;
  • Providing answers, information, or materials to another student in a manner not authorized by the instructor, including one’s own completed coursework.
Plagiarism is he use of another's words or ideas without appropriate acknowledgment, such as copying someone else's work and turning it in as your own

Examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to:
  • Submitting material that in part or whole is not entirely one’s own work without accurate and appropriate citations and attribution (including appropriate use of quotation marks);
  • Using the words, ideas, or structure/sequence of another person or source without accurate and appropriate citation and attribution (including the appropriate use of quotation marks);
  • Submitting material using translation software/devices without permission from the instructor.
Fabrication is the falsification, invention, or manipulation of any information, citation, data, or method.

Fabrication can include, but are not limited to:
  • Changing material on a graded academic assignment and requesting re-grading for that assignment;
  • Presenting false or invented information in any academic assignment;
  • Presenting false claims regarding how information or data was collected or generated;
  • Providing an inaccurate account of how information or data was collected or generated;
  • Inventing, inaccurately presenting, or manipulating data and/or its outcomes;
  • Inventing or inaccurately presenting citations or sources.
  • Changing or manipulating any grade or evaluation.
Unauthorized collaboration is working with another individual or individuals in any phase of or in the completion of an individual academic assignment without explicit permission from the instructor to complete the work in such a manner.
Misrepresentation is falsely representing oneself or one’s efforts or abilities in an academic assignment.

Examples of misrepresentation include, but are not limited to:
  • Utilizing another person to complete any portion of an academic assignment in place of one’s self;
  • Having another individual sign-in for a course or use an iClicker or other electronic device to record one’s presence or participation in a class;
  • Signing another student’s name or using an iClicker or other electronic device to record another’s presence or participation in a class or on an academic assignment;
  • another student’s name on a group project for credit when that student did not contribute to the work;
  • Including one’s own name on a group project when one did not contribute significantly to the work or thereby claiming credit for work completed by another group member.
  • Including unacknowledged sources or citations in an academic assignment

Glossary

Academic Dishonesty: any activity that compromises the academic integrity of the institution or subverts the educational process. Students are expected to behave honestly in their learning and in their behavior outside the classroom.

Plagiarism: the use of another's words or ideas without appropriate acknowledgment, such as copying someone else's work and turning it in as your own

Paraphrasing: using the ideas of others, by putting them in your own words and giving credit to the source

Quoting: word-for-word duplication of an author’s original writing. Quotation also requires that you give credit to the original source.

Citing: citations are required when you quote or paraphrase someone else's words or ideas. You will usually need to give credit to a source in two places: in the body of your paper and at the end of your paper.

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