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WorksheetsAcademic Integrity
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
How can you avoid unintentional plagiarism?
Researching well
Paraphrasing properly by putting ideas in your own words.
Citing your sources
Which of the following does not need to be cited:
Paraphrased information
Direct quotes
Common knowledge
Secondary sources
In your attempt at paraphrasing, your ideas flowed in the same order as the source, had the same sentence structure and contained 4 identical words with the source. Is this plagiarism?
Yes
No
Not sure
It is more a case of not changing the author's ideas
True or False?
You don't have to cite information from the Internet and YouTube videos as it is common knowledge.
True
False
When faced with a situation of academic dishonesty (group/individual) or one you are not sure about, the best course of action is to contact your Professor/Course Instructor ASAP.
True
False
Not really, contact the Academic Integrity Office instead.
Academic integrity is
The commitment to and demonstration of dishonest and ethical conduct in an academic setting
The commitment to and demonstration of partially completed school work
The commitment to and demonstration of honest and ethical conduct in an academic setting
Based on values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage
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3. You do not need to put the source of images such as charts, graphs, illustrations or photographs used in projects and PowerPoint presentations. As such, this will not be considered as plagiarism.
True
False
A slight bit but not really a major issue
When a student pays a third party money to complete their project, or they get a friend do it for them for free, why is this considered academic misconduct?
Using one's resources wisely
Merely a monetary transaction
Plagiarism
Unearned academic advantage
Academic Integrity allows you to...
Give credit to the authors and real sources
Pass others work as yours
Be proud of our own honest efforts
Reuse your own work without citing
Which of the following is a penalty for academic misconduct?
Revocation of a degree
Disciplinary Notation on student's record
Grade F
Grade 0
Disciplinary withdrawal from a program
Expulsion/
permanent removal from the university
In the event a Disciplinary Notation is attached to the academic records of a student, who was found to have engaged in academic misconduct, the student will not be able to
Receive an internal scholarship
Have their name on the Dean's List
Continue with an internship
Apply for a job
Which policy at Ryerson University is the one for Academic Integrity?
Policy 60
Policy 46
Policy 21
Policy 48
Which one is not an example of plagiarism but an example of academic misconduct?
Contract cheating
Re-submission of previous work as if new
Padding a reference list
Omitting in-text citation
Why are citations important?
Add credibility to work by providing evidence from the literature
Make source material accessible
Give credit to whom it is due
Avoidance of plagiarism
It is a software tool
You are responsible for your work. If there is a chance of your work being copied by someone you sent it to or if someone else adds information which is not your own, you (and the other person) could be found to have contributed to academic misconduct.
True
False
What do you call re-submitting part or all of your same work in two or more courses, or in the same course more than once, or passing off old work as new?
Improvisation
Innovation
Self-plagiarism
Academic misconduct
When a third party completes work, with or without payment, for a student, who then submits the work as their own, (where such input is not permitted) what is this called?
Economic transaction
Plagiarism
Knowledge exchange
Contract cheating
If a student never saw their university's policy on academic integrity and by mistake they did something that is regarded as academic misconduct would the student receive a lesser penalty or be excused for not knowing about the policy?
Yes, it is only fair as it was unintentional
No, the penalty is determined by the act not the intent
Maybe, if the student explain that nobody told them before
Which of these strategies can help you avoid plagiarism?
Signal phrases e.g. According to the UNDP...
Using a plagiarism checker
Proper in-text citation
Paraphrasing properly
Using a citation management software
Attending workshops by the Academic Integrity Office
What is plagiarism?
Citing someone's ideas properly.
Intellectual theft which is stealing someone's oral or written ideas, thought, opinions and representing them as his/her own original work.
Academic honesty
No big deal, only a small mistake
