C e n t e n n i al C o l l e g e A c a d e m i c H on e s t y H and o ut

Academic Honesty: The Foundation of a Learning Institutionby Marg Fortin

Academic honesty is not just about professors making life difficult for you. Academic honesty is a social responsibility—a responsibility to the college, to other students, and to the community you will serve in your future profession.

Every registered student is responsible for knowing and following all policies of the college. T h e p oli cy o n a c a de m i c h o n es ty a n d p la g i a ri s m i s o n e o f t h e m o s t i mp or t a nt p o l i c ie s . You can find all the college policies on the Centennial College website or on mycentennial.

When in doubt, ask your instructor. It is YOUR responsibility to seek clarification and understand the principles and the policy.

1. The opposite of academic honesty is academic dishonesty. Look at Section D.2 of Centennial College’s Academic Honesty and Plagiarism Policy and write the definition of academic dishonesty.

It shall be an offence for a student knowingly to represent as one’s own any idea or expression of an idea or work of another in any academic examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work i.e. to commit plagiarism. (U of T)

2. In Section E, how many breaches of academic honesty are listed? (A breach is an action that is against a rule.) Seven

3. The most frequent breaches in academic honesty are cheating and plagiarism.

CheatingAccording to the college’s policy, there are nine situations that are considered cheating? In the exercise on the next page, match the situation on the left with thesection of the policy on the right. Write the correct letter in the blank column.

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Situation

Applicable Section of the Policy

1. On the phone, you ask your friend the answers to questions on an assignment, you writethe answers, and submit it

g

a. Copying from another student.

2. You complete assignments and sell them

h b. Consulting an unauthorized source during an evaluation.

3. You and your friend complete an assignment that your instructor said must be done independently, and each of

f

c. Using unauthorized aids or materials during an evaluation.

4. You ask the person beside you the answer to a question during a test.

bd. Obtaining a copy of an

examination or test in advance of the date and time for writing the

5. You rewrite one or more sections of another student’s assignment to help the person get a better mark.

i

e. Submitting the work one has done for

one class project to a second class, or as a second project, without the prior consent of the faculty member

6. You write notes and use them during a test. c

f. Submitting work prepared in collaboration with (an)other member(s) of a class, when collaborative work on a special project has not been authorized by

7. You look at someone else’s paper during a test.

ag. Submitting work prepared in

whole or in part by another person or source and representing that

8. You submit the same essay for an EAPP and a psychology assignment without authorization.

eh. Offering for sale essays or other

assignments, in whole or in part, with the expectation that these works will be submitted by a

9. You take a copy of the final exam from the secretary’s desk when she wasn’t looking.

di. Preparing work in whole or in

part, with the expectation that this work will be submitted by another student for appraisal.

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Plagiarisma) Read the definition of “plagiarism” in Section E.2 of the

policy on academic honesty. Look at Section G of the college policy on academichonesty. How many possible penalties are listed for breach of this policy?

Nine

b) Which of the following situations would be considered plagiarism?

i. You found an article (on the Internet or in a book or magazine) that contained excellent information for one of your assignments. You simply cut and paste it (or copy the words) in the middle of your assignment. Yes X No

ii. You retyped the article, but you changed a few words. For example, instead of “kids”, you substituted “children”. Yes X No

iii. You paraphrased the article (expressed the ideas in your own words). Yes X No

iv. In order to avoid plagiarism, you must use citation and quotation mark .

So…yes, at Centennial College, we make a big deal about academic honesty…!