Academic Integrity

As a student, one of my core responsibilities is to refrain from infractions of academic integrity. The university expects all students to have this fundamental discipline throughout their careers. All students must treat academic integrity seriously and reflect self-discipline in their school work. Cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, bribes, or other forms of intellectual interference could have serious consequences, adversely affecting the student’s graduation, professional licensure, and future job seeking. Therefore, students all have to treat academic integrity seriously.

The Internet provides tremendous resources for students’ course works. In the meantime, dishonest students could use the convenience of the Internet, creating new forms of cheating and plagiarism. For instance, students could outsource their school work to someone in another state or country for a fee. According to the articles from International Journal for Educational Integrity, Erica J Morris states that “In recent years, international work in the field of academic integrity has turned to examine this issue, including looking at the nature of contract cheating, estimating the prevalence of the problem, uncovering contributory factors or reasons as to why a student may outsource their assignment to a third party, and exploring how higher education institutions can effectively respond by enhancing both academic integrity policy and educational approaches” (Morris, 2018).

As students, we must avoid academic dishonesty, such as cheating, attempting to cheat, assisting others to cheat, or unauthorized use of any materials or resources in literary work. Firstly, we cannot collaborate with other students on any assignments or educational projects without permission from the instructors or professors.

Secondly, we cannot sell or buy test booklets with all the answers to academic assignments or tests. Thirdly, we cannot submit the same or similar assignment to a different course even though we completed the work ourselves. Last, we cannot copy or use someone’s ideas, wording, or other original content without acknowledging their source when we write our academic papers.

Reference

Morris, E.J. Academic integrity matters five considerations for addressing contract cheating. Int J Educ Integr 14, 15 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-018-0038-5

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Academic Integrity

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