Academic
Honesty
Liberal
Arts and Sciences
Academic Dishonesty Information and Procedures
What
is Academic Dishonesty (PDF file)
Academic honesty is expected of all students
in courses offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
and all transactions with the College. Academic dishonesty has
serious consequences and can lead to course failure, denial of
registration
in courses in the College, probation, disqualification (by the
student’s
college), or dismissal.
Examples of Dishonesty
- Falsification of authorship in academic work
or portions of work submitted as one’s own.
- Submitting the same (or close to the same)
paper to different courses without express permission of all instructors.
- Other acts of cheating, forgery, plagiarism,
and dishonesty which are prohibited in the instructions, announcements,
and rules dealing with tests, papers, and other forms of academic
work in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Procedures
Faculty may assign a failing grade for a portion
of the course or the entire course on account of academic dishonesty.
If further action is recommended by a faculty member or a department,
the student will be notified of an academic administrative hearing
in the College prior to further College action.
Possible action after the hearing includes probation
or disqualification for CLAS students and referral to other colleges
for academic dishonesty on the part of students from other colleges.
CLAS reserves the right to initiate additional actions at the University
level such as dismissal.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the use of another’s written
materials which you present as your own. Plagiarism includes putting
your name on material prepared by another student or published material.
It also includes quoting significant portions of published material,
even if properly referenced, unless you obtain written permission
of the author. Plagiarism includes failing to properly cite the
sources you used in putting your paper together as well as turning
in papers written by another person for you.
Example: The following paragraph is from page
367 of Roosa, M. W. & Christopher, F. S. (1990). Evaluation
of an abstinence-only adolescent pregnancy prevention program: A
replication. Family Relations, 39, 363-367.
Evaluate behavior not just attitude. Pregnancy
prevention programs must be evaluated on their ability to change
or postpone sexual behavior, not just sexual attitudes or beliefs.
Sexual attitudes and beliefs may be legitimately treated as potential
mediators of later sexual behavior, especially with younger children,
but not as proxies for sexual behavior. (Reproduced with authors’
permission).
Improper use of this material:
(A) If you include the paragraph as is in your
paper, with or without a citation for Roosa and Christopher (1990),
you have plagiarized.
(B) If you include the following in your paper,
you have plagiarized:
Pregnancy prevention programs must be evaluated
on their ability to change or postpone sexual behavior, not just
sexual attitudes or beliefs (Roosa & Christopher, 1990).
These first two examples present the authors’
words as though they were the product of the student writing the
paper. Furthermore, the student who uses either of the first two
approaches has not given any example of their own thinking or ability
to write a sentence. Examples A and B are not acceptable
Proper use of material from this paragraph:
(C ) Roosa and Christopher (1990) recommend
that evaluations of pregnancy programs focus on behaviors instead
of only on attitudes or beliefs.
(D) Recent studies have criticized the practice
of evaluating pregnancy prevention programs on the basis of changes
in attitudes or beliefs while ignoring behavior (Roosa & Christopher,
1990).
In the above examples, the student has paraphrased
the authors’ material (put it into his or her own words) and
provided a clear reference to the source of the idea not the words.
The words are the student’s own.
If you choose to use a word-for-word quotation,
you must clearly mark the quote with quotation marks or for lengthy
quotations, indent and single-space, using proper APA methods for
citing the work.
AWARENESS OF POLICY ON ACADEMIC DISHONESTY/PLAGIARISM
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