What is an Academic Integrity violation?

You are given a take home exam with instructions not to use your notes, textbook or any other outside sources while completing the exam. You are having difficulty figuring out the answer to a couple of problems. Your roommate is in the class as well, and you discuss the topic with them, but don’t discuss specific questions.

• There is no problem with this scenario.

• You and your roommate are responsible for cheating for collaborating with another person without authorization.

• Your roommate is responsible for cheating because they started the conversation about the exam. You are not responsible.

• The exam was extremely difficult, and you know that everyone else worked on the test together so you feel that your actions are justified.

You are working on an exam in class when the professor says the exam is finished. You continue to work on the exam.

• You are responsible for academic misconduct for continuing to work on an assignment after the allotted time has elapsed.

• You arrived to class 10 minutes late and plan to continue to work for an extra 10 minutes so that you have the same amount of time as everyone else. After all, this is only fair!

• The person next to you continued to work so you felt entitled to do the same. What is good for one should be good for all.

• This is not academic misconduct.

You are working on a paper and the majority of the research you’ve done is from the Web. You find a paper that is very similar to the one you are working on. You decide to use a few paragraphs from the internet paper, word for word. You include a reference to the work on your Works Cited page, but no in-text citation in your paper.

• Technically this is plagiarism but since it is only one page, it is not that big of a deal.

• This is not academic dishonesty.

• You are responsible for plagiarism.

• You included a reference on the Works Cited page, so that’s enough.

You are preparing a lab report and are not coming up with what you know to be the correct answers. You continue to figure out your calculations hoping that you have just made a calculation mistake. After a few tries, you determine that the problem just isn’t working out. You decide to fudge some of the numbers so that you get what you know to be the correct answer.

• You are responsible for academic misconduct.

• You believe that if the professor realizes that you falsified the numbers to get the correct answer, he will understand that you at least tried and that is all that counts.

• You are responsible for fabrication.

• This course has nothing to do with your future career goals so what is the sense of mastering the course.

Your professor allows you to bring in one sheet of paper (8 ½ x 11, one-sided only) with formulas, notes, etc. which you may use during an exam. You type up four pages of information, then print them four to a page, ending up with only one sheet of paper. This would be an example of which of the following?

• This is an example of cheating.

• This is an example of academic misconduct

• This is an example of fabrication.

• This is not a violation of the Academic Honesty Policy because the faculty member did not mention how large (or small) the print could to be.

While working on a group project, you copy and paste information directly from Wikipedia into your PowerPoint presentation. You do not cite the passage or include it in your references. Is this plagiarism?

• Yes

• No

You find a great idea in an article so you use it in your paper. You don’t bother to cite the source of the idea because you’ve expressed in in your own words. Is this plagiarism?

• Yes

• No

Last semester you wrote an essay on Emily Dickinson for an American literature course. This semester you are taking the course “Interrogating Gender in American Culture,” and the professor has assigned a paper topic that references Dickinson’s life and work. It would be very easy for you to retool whole sections of your first essay to satisfy the requirements of the second. Is it acceptable to resubmit the paper without checking with either professor because it is your creation and you will be changing it for a different professor or course? 

• Yes

• No

You copy a short passage from an article you found. You change a couple of words so that it’s different from the original – you’ve been told by the professor to put things in your own words. You cite the source. Is this plagiarism?

• Yes

• No

Information on the Internet is common knowledge and therefore doesn't have to be cited, right?

• Yes

• No