Academic Integrity- Unit 1
Helping someone cheat is just as bad as cheating yourself.
True
When writing a paper, how do you give proper credit when copying word for word?
b. Citing the source where the words came from & putting quotation marks around the copied material
Anne buys a paper online and turns it in as if it's her own work. Her instructor submits the paper to SafeAssign (a tool that checks for plagiarism) because he suspects it isn't Anne's work. Anne is accused of plagiarism. The worst thing that can happen is that she gets an "F" on the paper.
False
George has developed a specific way he writes academic papers. He outlines his paper and then spends time finding quotes to put under each section of the paper, which he adds quotation marks around and cites according to the citation style in his discipline, and then writes around the quotes in his own words to finish the paper. This is an example of plagiarism.
False
Turning in a paper written by someone else is a more severe infraction than copying a few words from someone else's paper.
False
You and your roommate are taking the same course but are each in a different section and therefore take your tests at different times. Your roommate asks you how the exam went and whether a certain concept was on the test. You confirm that a great deal of the test focused on Chapter 3. This is not cheating because you didn't share specific questions that were on the test.
False
Cheating and plagiarism are both forms of academic dishonesty.
True
If you are taking an exam and realize that your neighbor is looking at your exam, it is considered cheating if you do nothing to prevent your neighbor from looking at your answers.
True
John has to do a presentation on the three branches of government for class. He does a Google search and finds a PowerPoint presentation on a website where people share their PowerPoint presentations with others. He downloads it and uses it as is for his class. He practices his presentation for hours. His presentation is a success. Later, his instructor found out that he used a presentation he found online without attribution. John plagiarized.
True
Katie is taking an exam for her online course. Her instructor said it was an open book exam. She and some other students in the class decide to get online and message each other back and forth during the exam to help identify where in the book certain answers can be found. This is cheating.
True
You can be accused of cheating if you have your cell phone out during an exam because no one can be sure what you're looking at on your phone.
True
Cathy has been working on a paper for class. During her research for the paper, she found a great quote and copied it into her paper. But she forgot where the quote came from and she is running out of time. What should Cathy do?
b. Remove the quote from the paper
Andrew has been studying for weeks for the final exam in his math class. He finds out that a number of students are passing around a copy of the final exam from a previous semester. If Andrew wants to act with academic integrity, what should he do?
b. Tell the instructor that students are planning on cheating on the exam
Which of the following are ways instructors can catch you plagiarizing:
e. All of the above a. They notice a change in your writing style b. They submit your paper to a plagiarism detection tool like SafeAssign c. They recognize your paper from a previous semester in which it was turned in by another student d. A student tells them that they know that you didn't write your own paper e. All of the above
Which of the following is an example of plagiarism?
e. All of the above a. Word-for-word copying of another person's ideas or words without attribution b. Submitting another person's work as one's own c. Submitting a paper for two different courses d. Fabricating sources e. All of the above
