Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
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What is academic integrity?
From the RSGC senior student agenda:
Academic integrity is at the heart of the teaching-learning process. Students are expected to make a sincere and honest effort in all areas of study. Students must accept responsibility for their own work. Examples of academic dishonest include: plagiarism - submitting the work of others as one's own, using in an assignment ideas or data copied or paraphrased without acknowledgment of the source - cheating on tests and examinations, or providing work to someone else to use as his own. The School will not tolerate any form of academic dishonesty. Students who are found to be dishonest will be subject to disciplinary action as follows: receipt of zero on the assignment, project, test, or examination, notification of parents and other consequences deemed necessary in consultation with the teacher and the Head of the Senior School. The same assignment may not be handed in for more than one course.
Why Are Integrity and Honesty Important?
Positive Steps to Avoid Plagiarism
- The Academic Integrity Tutorial from York University.
Turnitin.com
Turnitin.com is a commerical service for educational institutions (schools, colleges, and universities) intended to promote academic integrity. Its main feature is a reporting mechanism that allows instructors to compare student work to a large database of sources, including other students' essays, to detect plagiarism. Turnitin.com also offers extensive information on how to cite sources and avoid plagiarism.
Royal St. George's College has purchased a licence to use Turnitin.com and students should be ready to submit their work electronically when requested.
Students looking for information on the hows and whys of citations and steps to avoid plagiarism should check out the research resources pages on the turnitin.com website.
