Write a paragraph that defines the concept of academic honesty.
Here is one attempt to write the required paragraph:
Academic integrity involves, most fundamentally, behaving honestly,
openly and constructively within academic endeavors.
The concept that unifies
ethics policy
is transparency.
Transparency, or revealing the way in which work was completed and
conclusions were reached, results in proper citation of work, and
permits students and scholars alike to receive proper recognition and
evaluation.
One particular type of academic
dishonesty—plagiarism—occurs when a writer uses sources,
whether through quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing, without clearly
or sufficiently acknowledging the debt.
Self-plagiarism is a related issue. In this document we define
self-plagiarism as the verbatim or near-verbatim reuse of significant
portions of one's own copyrighted work without citing the original
source.
Footnotes:
Charles P. Riedesel, Alison L. Clear, Gerry W. Cross, Janet M. Hughes,
Simon, and Henry M. Walker, "Academic integrity policies in a computing
education context", Report of the ITiCSE 2012 Working Group on
Academic Honesty, Proceedings of the Final Reports on Innovation and
Technology in Computer Science Education, pp. 1-15.
Charles P. Riedesel, Eric D. Manley, Susan Poser, and Jitender
S. Deogun, "A model of academic ethics and integrity policy for
computer science departments", Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical
Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2009), New York,
pp. 357-361.
Grinnell College, "Academic Policies and Procedures: Honesty in Academic Work", Student Handbook, http://catalog.grinnell.edu/content.php?catoid=4&navoid=89#Honesty_in_Academic_Work, retrieved 20 August 2013.
Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism,
http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy, which in turn cites
Collbery and Kobourov, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1053291.1053293.
created 19 August 2013 last revised 20 August 2013
