Academic Honesty
Academic Honesty
Academic honesty or Academic Integrity can be defined as presenting work that is your own, avoiding plagiarism through quotation, summary, paraphrasing, and citation, and properly using copyrighted materials in your work. The IB Academic Integrity Expectations and Responsibilities of the School Community for students can be viewed on the right, you must be logged into your school Google account to view.
IB Academic Integrity Students.pdfPlagiarism
Plagiarism is submitting someone else's work or ideas as your own. Plagiarism can be avoided by using quotations, summarizing, and paraphrasing along with citation when using work or ideas created by others.
Here are some great resources that will help you understand and avoid plagiarism:
Become an expert at identifying and avoiding plagiarism by completing this tutorial from Indiana University.
Resources to help you learn about and understand plagiarism.
A plagiarism tutorial from the University LIbraries from the University of Albany
A short video describing how to avoid plagiarism.
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting: A Guide to Doing it Right!
This video provides instruction and demonstrates examples of acceptable and unacceptable summaries, paraphrases, and quotations.
Turnitin
Turnitin is a tool to help students avoid plagiarism and teachers detect plagiarism. Your teacher may require you to submit your IB papers to Turnitin to check for plagiarism.
Turnitin can help you check your paper for plagiarism in your work as part of the editing process. Using Turnitin this way will help you correct unintentional plagiarism before final submission. If your teacher has not required the use of Turnitin for an assignment you can sign in to the Plagiarism Review class on Turnitin. Go to the Login Information page or see the librarian for the class ID and enrollment key.
Login to Turnitin with Google. Make sure you are using your school Google Account
Copyright
Copyright entitles a creator of information the rights to their intellectual property. This means that you can not use someone's work without their permission except in the case of fair use.
Fair use allows you to use the intellectual property of others under specific circumstances for education, news, parody, and criticism depending on the:
- purpose of the use: How are you using the work? commercial or non-commercial use
- nature of the copyrighted work: Is the original work creative? is it factual?
- amount of the copyrighted work used: How much of the work is being used? the entire work? a large portion of the work? a small portion of the work?
- Effect to the value of the original work in the marketplace: will the copyright holder be hurt financially by your use of the work.
Video explaining copyright and fair use using clips from Disney movies (it is recommended to turn on the closed captioning as the words can be a little difficult to understand).
Guidelines for copyright and fair use from Stanford University Libraries.
Copyright and Fair Use Animation
A video brief explanation of copyright and fair use.
Understanding Copyright Public Domain, and Fair Use
This video provides an overview of copyright, the public domain, and fair use.
Creative Commons Licenses
A Creative Commons (CC) License allows the copyright holder of a work to modify or limit the copyright on that work. If you abide by the permissions and restrictions of the CC License you do not have to locate the copyright holder to receive permission to use the work, the permission has been granted by the CC License.
Creative Commons Spectrum of Rights
A slide show that demonstrates creative commons licensing rights.
Explanation of CC Licenses from Creative Commons.