What Is Academic Integrity?

Academic integrity is the concept used to describe the many facets of authenticity within a student's work. A student who upholds a high standard of academic integrity will produce or create work which is authentic and true to the knowledge and learrning which he or she has acquired.

What Does Academic Integrity Mean?

Academic Integrity means that:

• A students's work on each assignment will be completely their own
• A student will not practice plagiarism in any form
• A student will not allow others to copy their work
• A student will not misuse content from the Internet

What Is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is copying or using ideas or words from another person, an online classmate, or an Internet or print source and presenting them as your own.

Some examples of plagiarism include:

• Buying a paper from a research service or term paper mill.
• Turning in another student's work without that student's knowledge.
• Turning in a paper a peer has written for the student.
• Copying a paper from a source text without proper acknowledgment.
• Copying materials from a source text, supplying proper documentation, but leaving out quotation marks.
• Paraphrasing materials from a source text without appropriate documentation.
• With the Internet, another type of plagiarism needs to be listed: "Turning in a paper from a "free term paper" website.