Academic Integrity: Examples of Dishonesty

Academic Integrity:
Examples of Academic Dishonesty

Copying someone else's words without documenting source of information

Not placing quotation marks around text taken word for word from anther author

Copying someone else's thoughts without documenting source of information

Copying someone else's ideas without documenting source of information

Using a term someone else has coined without documenting source of information

Presenting material out of context

Using someone else's images without documenting source of information

Using images in a digital technology project in violation of copyright law.

Turning a paper into two classes without the permission of both professors

Submitting a paper or project from a previous semester without permission of the current professor

Turning in someone else's paper as your own

Allowing someone to take a quiz or exam for you

Stealing a research idea

Citing a source which you did not consult

Using someone else's paper as an outline

Using other people's notes/tapes so as not to attend class

Cheating

Copying test answers

Using unauthorized materials during an exam

Falsifying data

Reading cliff notes or a condensed book instead of reading the assigned material.

Watching a movie instead of reading the book

Preventing access to materials that others in the class require

Not returning library books

Ripping pages out of books, journals, or magazines which are meant for public access

Limiting access to research subjects

Stealing research

Stealing test answers

Conflict of interest

Not getting informed consent

Bypassing checks and balances

Nepotism

Sabotage

Moving pins during lab exam

Hurting someone's experiment

Providing incorrect answers to someone else's survey/experiment

Signing your name to a publication to which you did not contribute

Not signing the name of all individuals who made a significant contribution to a paper or other project