Academic Integrity

Academic integrity

§ It is imperative that you learn to be academically honest at school and that you are prepared with good research skills to assist you in your future studies.

§ At university, and one day in the work place, fraudulence has harsh consequences.

§ You could be banished from your subject or course; be expelled or fired, or even be criminally prosecuted.

§ To take someone else’s work or parts thereof is theft of intellectuall property.

§ Your work should always be original and referenced.

What does the theft of intellectual property involve?

· Obvious Academic Dishonesty:

o The use of extra information (i.e. crib notes, books, calculator, conversation, cellular telephone or other technological devics) during a test or examination.

o The copying of someone else’s work, receiving or providing assistance in a test or an examination – verbal, written or gestural.

o Allowing another person to copy your work and hand it in as their own.

o Handing in the work of another person as your own.

o Informing others of the content of a test if they have not yet written it.

o Changing answers or marks once assessments have been returned or during peer/self assessment.

· Less obvious Academic Dishonesty:

o Using a range of texts in essays or assignments without referencing them.

o Permitting someone else to use your assignment to assist them to formulate their assignment.

o To hand something in for assesment more than once.

o Changing research results from research or altering data from laboratory experiments.

o Collaborative work on assignments when instructed to work as an individual.

Plagiarism.

o Plagiarism is illegal misuse, theft of and publishing of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

o The Merriam Webster online dictionary refers to plagiarism as: the act of using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to that person ("Plagiarism." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2014. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarism>.

o It includes:

· Stealing or adopting the ideas or words of someone else as your own

· Using someone else’s creation without crediting the source

· Commiting literary theft

· Presenting an idea or product acquired from a current source as something new

o Plagiarism is therefore the committing of fraud which means you have stolen someone else’s work and lied about it later.

I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE ABOVE:__________________________

Springfield Township High School 2005.Springfield Township School [online].

Available from: http://www.shs.springfield.k12.il.us [Accessed: 5 June]

Adapted from: St Mary’s DSG’s “Academic Integrity Policy”

Policy for the handing in of late work

1. All work is to be handed in on the due date.

2. If you do not have English on that day, find your teacher and hand in the work anyway, or put it in the relevant box in the English Office. Sign to show that you have handed it in.

3. When emailing work, ask for a “received document” notification and retain a copy.

4. Ten percent a day will be deducted from your mark for up to two days. Thereafter, you will receive zero for that piece of work.

5. Detention will be given for homework not done and to catch up the work missed (this does not mean that it will be marked).

6. Copying others’ work is a serious offence and will result in a disciplinary (SEE THE ACADEMIC INTEGRITY DOCUMENT ABOVE).

7. Remember: make every piece count!

I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE ABOVE:_________________________________