Examples of Academic Dishonesty
Caution:
This list of behaviors is not inclusive of all possible violations.
When
in doubt about whether your actions may violate the Honor
Pledge, please consult with your instructor or call/email the Honor System
Office for further clarification. (785-432-2595/honor@ksu.edu)
Plagiarism:
- In a paper or assignment, if you include material that you researched
in a book, magazine, newspaper, and/or on the Web, you MUST cite the
source.
- You must cite the source in the BODY of the text AND
in a Works Cited or Reference section.
- If you copy somebody's test answers, take an essay from a magazine
and pass it off as your own, lift a well-phrased sentence or two and
copy and paste them without crediting the author or using quotation
marks, or even pass off somebody's good ideas as examples of your
own genius, you are committing plagiarism.
- Plagiarism covers unpublished
as well as published sources. This can mean borrowing another's term
paper, handing in as one's own work a paper purchased from an individual
or off the Net, or submitting as one's own any papers from living
group's, club's, or organization's files.
- EVEN HANDING IN THE SAME PAPER IN
MORE THAN ONE CLASS can be considered plagiarism.
Always check with the instructor BEFORE doing this. Professors must
cite themselves when writing up their research; you are held to the
same standards as a "junior" researcher.
- For a great example of what plagiarism LOOKS like, click on this:
Plagiarism Example
- For an excellent web site that shows MLA and APA styles, click on
this Indiana
University site.
- Receive support with RefWorks at Hale Library.REFWORKS
Other Forms of Academic Cheating:
These include, but are not limited to:
- consultation of textbooks, library materials, or notes in examinations
where such materials are not to be used during the test;
- consultation of cell phone text messages, PDAs, programmable calculators
with materials that give an advantage over other students during an
exam;
- use of crib sheets or other hidden notes in an examination, or
looking at another student's test paper to copy strategies or answers;
- having another person supply questions or answers from an examination
to be given or in progress;
- having a person other than oneself (registered for the class) attempt
to take or take an examination or any other graded activity. In these
cases all consenting parties to the attempt to gain unfair advantage
may be charged with an Honor Pledge violation;
- deliberate falsification of laboratory results, or submission of
samples or findings not legitimately derived in the situation and
by the procedures prescribed or allowable;
- revising and resubmitting a quiz or exam for regrading, without
the instructor's knowledge and consent;
- giving or receiving unauthorized aid on a
take-home examination;
- facilitating academic dishonesty: intentionally or knowingly helping
or attempting to help another to violate the Honor Pledge;
- signing in another student's name on attendance sheets, rosters,
Scantrons;
- submission in a paper, thesis, lab report, or other academic exercise
of falsified, invented,
or fictitious data or evidence, or deliberate or knowing concealment
or distortion of the true nature, origin, or function of such data
or evidence;
- procurement and/or alteration without permission from appropriate
authority of examinations, papers, lab reports, or other academic
exercises, whether discarded or actually used, and either before or
after such materials have been handed in to the appropriate recipient;
and
- collaborating with others on projects where such collaboration
is expressly forbidden, or where the syllabus states the default being
one's own work.