Academic Honesty 20-21

ACADEMIC HONESTY

GRADE V
2020-21

What is Academic Honesty ?

Being Honest in all the academic work that you do.
Presenting the assignments by doing it on your own.
If resources like,
Book/websites/articles/magazines/research papers
were used for your assignments , give credit to the owners by citing
them.

Why do I have to follow Academic Honesty ?

 It creates a strong bond of trust in your relationship with
teachers & peers involved in the process of your education.

 It helps to progress in the path of knowledge as honesty is the
main key to success.

 It enhances the development of following life long skills of
reading, writing , research, analyzing, synthesizing and
comprehension skills.

How do I know if I am being academically honest ?

Six Values of Academic Honesty

Honesty Trust Fairness Respect Courage Responsibility



Types of Academic Dishonesty

Plagiarism
Fabrication
Cheating
Collusion
Academic misconduct



Plagiarism

This is defined as the representation,
intentionally or unwittingly, of the ideas,
words or work of another person without
proper, clear and explicit acknowledgment.



Reasons for Plagiarism

1. Unintentional

- Poor literacy skills

2. Intentional

- Deliberate attempt to achieve ‘ high end’ results with
low end efforts.

3. Invitational

- Nature & scope of certain types of assessments force to
search for collect and replicate information.

Examples of Plagiarism

 Quoting another person’s actual words, sentences,
paragraphs or entire work without giving credit to
the source.

 Copying another person’s actual words without using
quotation marks (“”).

 Using another person’s ideas, opinions, theories, etc.
even if completely paraphrased in one’s own words,
without giving credit or acknowledging the source.

Examples of Plagiarism

1. Borrowing facts, statistics, illustrations, etc. that are not clearly common
knowledge, without giving credit to the source.

2. Copying or allowing another student to copy a computer file with another
student’s assignment and submitting it, in part or fully as one’s own.

3. Copying another student’s essay or test answers.

4. Failing to acknowledge collaborators on assignments

How can you avoid plagiarism ?



Quoting

Quotations should be used sparingly. They must be exact, word-
for-word as they appear in the original document.
Quotes require a citation in addition to the use of quote marks.
Every quoted word needs to be cited. Even a short phrase or
single word must be quoted and cited if it is unusual.

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Paraphrase

All papers must be completely in your own words. In your construction of writing to
paraphrase you must use new synonyms and new phrases. Only technical terms
should be repeated.
However, any exact words that are retained from the original source should have
quotation marks around them. The sentence structure should be yours, not a copy of
the same style as in the source.
Also, when paraphrasing, your interpretation and/or assessment is not included in
the paraphrased text.Therefore, paraphrasing is more than simply rewording the
original material.

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Summarizing

A summary is a concise statement of another person’s thoughts or
ideas in your own words. A summary is normally shorter than the
original—a distillation of the source’s ideas. When summarizing
other people’s ideas, arguments, or conclusions, you must cite
your sources in accordance with APA rules.
Taking good notes while doing your research will help you keep
track of which ideas belong to which author.

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fabrication

It is inventing material—saying you found it in a research

.source, when in fact you thought it up on your own

Examples of fabrication

1. Submitting as your own, any academic work prepared totally or in
part by another person.
2. Submitting falsified, invented or fictitious data or information.
3. Citing information that is not taken from the indicated source.

Examples of fabrication

4. Listing sources in the bibliography that are not used in the assignment,
essay or exercise.
5. Incorrect reference or documentation of secondary sources.
6. Copying another student’s essay or test answers.
7. Failing to acknowledge collaborators on assignments

Examples of Cheating

1. Collaborating on a test, quiz or project with
another person(s) without authorization.

2. Using electronic instruments (cellphones,
pagers, tablets, etc.) to obtain, transmit or
share information when forbidden.

3. Participating in tests or other academic
activities using the name of another student
or allowing someone else to participate for
oneself.

Examples of Cheating

5. Using a textbook, notebook or notes in
any form to complete a test or other
assignment without permission.
5. Copying from another student’s test.
6. Permitting other student to copy from
a test

Collusion

Copying homework from others or helping another student on a
test is collusion.
 If a tutor or older sibling does much of a piece of work for a

student, that can also be described as collusion.

Academic Misconduct - Examples

1. Taking an exam, quiz or test for another student.

2. Asking or allowing another student to take an exam, quiz or
test for you.

3. Giving assistance or failing to report witnessed acts of
academic misconduct or dishonesty.

4. Circulating assignments, essays or other academic exercises
with students of different groups or classes

How to exhibit Academic Honesty ?

Understand the importance of academic integrity.
 Be honest to yourself and respect your peers & Teachers
 Be organized , plan your time and Develop good study habits
 Don’t be afraid to ask for help for any clarity on Assignments or how to
conduct the research

How to exhibit Academic Honesty ?

5. Don’t tolerate dishonesty among fellow student.

6. ALWAYS CITE THE SOURCE OF INFORMAT ION.

7. Create a BIBLIOGRAPHY for future reference.

What is Citation & References ?

Citation – It is a way you tell readers of your assignment or
project work that certain part of your work came from another
source. It also gives your readers or audience information
necessary to find that source again including :
Information about the author,Title of the work,The name and
location that published copy of the source , date and page
numbers of the material etc



Citing A book

• Author’s last name followed by a comma and first name

followed by a period

• The title underlined and followed by a period
• place of publication followed by a colon
• publisher followed by a comma
• Copyright date followed by a period

Example:
Speare, Elizabeth. The bronze bow. Boston : Houghton

Mifflin, c1989.

Citing Encyclopedias or Dictionaries

•Author of the article’s last name followed by a comma, and first name
followed by a period

•The articles title within double quotes followed by a period

•The Encyclopedias or Dictionaries title underlined and followed by a
period

•Copyright year followed by “ed.”

Example:
Janos, Adam G. "Cold War." Encyclopedia Americana. 1996 ed.

Citing Web sites

• Author’s last name followed by a comma Example:
• Author’s first name followed by a period
• Title of webpage followed by a period Lowe, Wesley. Pro Death Penalty Web
• Date last revised or published Page. Nov. 2001. 22 Oct. 2002
• Date you visited the website <http://www.wesleylowe.com/cp.html>.
• the URL address inside <>

Citing Poems or Short Stories Example:

• Author of the poem, or short story Kaufman, Bob. "Blues Note." The Beat
• Title of poem or short story Book. Ed. Anne Waldman. Boston:
• Editors Shambhala, 1996. 303.
• Place of publication & publisher
• Page numbers

Citing Newspaper Articles

• Author(s) of the article

• Full title of the article

• Title of the newspaper

• Section and page numbers Example:
• Date of publication Tabor, Mary B. W. "Despite Low Prestige and Pay, More
Answer the Call to Teach: College Students are Increasingly
Showing Interest in Teaching Profession." New York Times 11
Jul. 1999: N1+.

Citing Magazines

• Author’s last name followed by a comma

• Author’s first name followed by a period

• Article title followed by a period inside double quotes

• Magazine title underlined and followed by a period Example:
• Volume and issue numbers
• Year of publication followed by a colon Keil, Kristi Lockhart. "An Intimate Profile
of Generation X." American Enterprise, a
National Magazine of Politics, Business,
and Culture. Jan.-Feb. 1998: 49+

• Page numbers

Citing thesis

• Author
• Title followed by a period inside double quotes
• Academic institution followed by a comma
• Year of publication followed by a period

Example:
Matson, Diane Marie. "Accountability, Task Structure, and Evidence

Evaluations in an Audit Review Process." Diss. University of Minnesota,
1997.

Other Media/Video or Film

• To cite information from a film, video, • CD-ROM
• To cite information from a CD-ROM
or DVD, follow this style:
Style: encyclopedia, follow this style:
Title. Director's name. Distributor, year. Style:
Author's Name (if available). “Title of
• Example: Article.” Title of CD-ROM.

Walking with Dinosaurs. Dir. Tim Edition. CD-ROM. City of
Haines, Jasper James. BBC Video, 2000. Publication:

Publisher, Year.
• Example:

”Czech Republic.” Compton's
Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Cambridge:
The

Learning Company, 1999.

What is a Bibliography ?

• A list of resources used to create an assignment or project.

• It should be in alphabetical order by the author’s last
name.

• Websites should be listed in alphabetical order by their
title.



What Is Copyright?

• Copyright is a form of protection given to the authors or

creators of “original works of authorship,” including
literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and other intellectual
works.

What that means is that, as the author of the work, you alone have the
right to do any of the following or to let others do any of the following:

 make copies of your work;
 distribute copies of your work;
 perform your work publicly (such as for plays, film, dances or music);
 display your work publicly (such as for artwork, or stills from audiovisual
works, or any material used on the Internet or television); and
make “derivative works” (including making modifications, adaptations or
other new uses of a work, or translating the work to another media)





Citation & references

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