Academic Integrity & Referencing Conventions

Question 1

Why does academic integrity matter

Answer 1

Professionalism

Learning

Value

Fairness

Property

Courtesy

Deterrence

Question 2

What are the forms of Academic Dishonesty

Answer 2

Plagiarism

Double Submissions

Exam Cheating

Records Falsification

Question 3

What are the types of Violations of the student academic integrity policy

Answer 3

Plagiarism

Submitting shared work as individual work (Collusion)

Submitting an assignment or paper more than once (Cheating)

Cheating during an exam: Using any device / mobile phone to receive or share information during the exam

Submitting a purchased assignment or essay (Contract Cheating)

Falsifying documents

Accessing exam information from an unauthorized source

Question 4

How not to avoid inadvertent plagiarism

Answer 4

Failures of Referencing

Failures of Paraphrasing

Failures of Adaptation

Failures of Collaboration

Question 5

How to avoid plagiarism

Answer 5

If you copy someone’s words, put them in quotation marks and cite the source.

If you copy a table, figure, or image, cite the source.

If you restate (paraphrase) someone’s ideas in your own words, cite (or acknowledge) the source

Give credit to others for their intellectual property

Question 6

How to do acknowledgments

Answer 6

list on your acknowledgements page (page ii) your peer reviewers, TA/Prof (if you consulted them), and friends/family who helped by proofreading.

If you hire a professional editor/tutor to help you with the papers, you must also provide contact details (name/phone number/e-mail address).