What is Academic Honesty?
Academic honesty refers to the expectation that individuals should give credit to other people's intellectual property. When using another person's published words, ideas, images, etc. you are "stealing" their intellectual property if you do not acknowledge your source.
How can I avoid Academic Dishonesty?
The following are examples of ways in which you could be accused of being academically dishonest:
- Plagiarism - the failure to properly acknowledge the use of another person’s work, or submitting material that is not your own work;
- Misrepresentation of a piece of group work as solely the student’s own individual work;
- Collusion - allowing someone else to copy your work;
- Unauthorized access to an examination/test paper;
- Possession/use of unauthorized material in assessment;
- Communication during an assessment such as an examination;
- Use of fabricated data claimed to be obtained by experimental work, or data copied or obtained by unfair means;
- Impersonating another student during a test or an examination, or knowingly allowing yourself to be impersonated.
MLA Formatting
When you complete your project, you will be required to use MLA formatting in order to reference your sources.
See this helpful guide (below) from Eric Garcia about MLA formatting (2015):
See this helpful guide (below) from Eric Garcia about MLA formatting (2015):
You may also want to watch:
This how-to video, posted on YouTube, by Ashley Marshall, a.k.a. Teacher-Helper, will give you some quick tips on how to use MLA formatting tools such as Easy Bib and Purdue OWL.
ACADEMIC HONESTY FORMS
At the end of your project, you will be required to submit the Academic Honesty form along with all your other work. This is a declaration signed by both you and your supervisor to state that the work in the presentation / report is your own, and that all others works have been cited correctly.