This is a site-specific Academic Integrity Policy.

1. Academic Integrity
Policy
GGIS Upper School

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Warm-Up
What if you have to write a
paper for school, but you are
running out of time?
1. Do you look for help?
Where?
2. Has this ever happened to
you? What did you do?
3. What does it mean to have
“Academic Integrity”?

3. Learning Objectives
Students will:
1. Explain how to cite information in MLA
format in order to give proper credit to
sources.
2. Describe five specific types of violations
of academic integrity that should be
avoided.

4. What is Academic Integrity?
Each of your academic tasks at GGIS provide an
opportunity to showcase your intelligence, your ideas,
your thoughts, and your opinions.
Your thoughts, actions, and words matter.
Academic integrity is a personal and professional standard
that you and GGIS uphold together.

5. School Policy:
"In keeping with our motto Morality,
Discipline, Respect, GGIS students will
uphold their academic integrity, taking
pride in doing all academic work in
honesty to the glory of God, giving
appropriate credit to all sources."
- GGIS Student Handbook

6. School Policy:
"Students will be expected to adhere to
the Academic Integrity Policy for all
academic work submitted."
- GGIS Student Handbook

7. What is Academic Integrity?
From: Indiana University at Bloomington (2013):
“You must give credit whenever you use
● another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
● any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any
pieces of information—that are not common
knowledge;
● quotations of another person’s actual spoken or
written words; or
● paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written
words.”
Source:
"Plagiarism." Writing Tutorial Services (WTS): Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. Indiana University
- Bloomington, 27 Apr. 2004. Web. 28 Aug. 2013. <http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml>.

8. My teacher just assigned a research task…
What now?
● Begin to locate quality, scholarly sources
● Compile a running list of your sources
● To use the sources you can:
○ Use direct quotes - with attribution
○ Reference information - with attribution
● Create a Works Cited page for your
assignment, in MLA format

9. Citing Your Sources
Image: serc.carleton.edu

10. Citation Generators Can Help
Citation

11. Citation Generators Can Help
Citations

12. A Great MLA Resource
owl.english.purdue.edu

13. MLA Citations
The Writing Lab at Perdue University. (2015). Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and
Style Guide. Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/15/
The Purdue
OWL
Suggests this
format
For citing
Books

14. MLA Citations
The Writing Lab at Perdue University. (2015). Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and
Style Guide. Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/15/
The Purdue
OWL
Suggests this
format
For citing
Websites

15. MLA Citations
The Writing Lab at Perdue University. (2017). Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and
Style Guide. Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/2/
The Purdue
OWL
Suggests this
format
For In-Text
Citations of
Web
Resources

16. What is Academic Dishonesty?
Images:
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17. 1. Cheating:
Cheating is the theft of information from
another student with or without that other
person’s knowledge.
Cheating also includes stealing answers from
answer keys. Cheating also includes bringing
information in written or digital form into the
classroom during a quiz or test.
Cheating is stealing.

18. 2. Aiding & Abetting:
Aiding and Abetting is providing material and
information to another person with the
knowledge that the person will use it to cheat,
plagiarize, or deceive.

19. 3. Impersonating:
Impersonating is pretending to be someone else
in order to gain an academic advantage.

20. 4. Deception:
Deception is providing false information to the
instructor in order to gain academic advantage.

21. 5. Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is presenting another’s ideas,
images, language, or work as one’s own.
Plagiarism is lying that someone else’s work
is your own.
Source:
"The Meaning and Prevention of Plagiarism." Teaching Writing with Computers: Academic Integrity
Project. University of California, Davis, n.d. Web. 28 Aug. 2013.
<http://cai.ucdavis.edu/plagiarism.html>.

22. Review: GGIS Policy Prohibits...
1. Cheating
2. Aiding & Abetting
3. Impersonating
4. Deception
5. Plagiarism
Have You Ever Cheated on a Test?. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.sodahead.com/living/have-you-ever-cheated-on-a-test/question-3136627/
Plagiarism | Kent State University. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.kent.edu/plagiarism

23. Confirmed academic dishonesty will result in the
following consequences:
●Discipline referral: Trip to office / Call home
●Zero grade on the assignment
Example: Student remits 10 page research paper
containing some sentences or paragraphs plagiarized
from the internet.
Result:
● Discipline referral and
● zero grade for the entire paper.
Consequences for
Academic Dishonesty at GGIS:

24. Consequences for
Academic Dishonesty at GGIS:
Student will receive, at minimum, a discipline
referral from the Principal’s office and a zero
grade for the work.
Important:
Students that violate the Academic Integrity
Policy could be suspended or expelled.

25. Walking in Your Integrity:
● Wisely use and cite your sources.
Learn to properly give credit where credit is due.
● Have a sense of ownership with all of your work.
Do work that you are proud of presenting to others
as the fruit of your own learning and evidence of your
own learning.
● Respect the work of your peers.
Encourage others in their efforts and do not copy.
● Receive correction as a chance to learn and develop
your character and academic ability.
● You can provide assistance to your peers without
compromising your integrity.
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26. Editor: Janssen, D., 2016

27. Works Cited:
"Academic Integrity and Honor Code." College of Central Florida, Web. 28 Aug. 2013. <http://www.cf.edu/smartcatalog/7951.htm>.
"Academic Integrity | CUNY SPS." The CUNY School of Professional Studies. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Aug. 2013.
<http://sps.cuny.edu/acad_policies/acad_integrity.html>.
"Code of Academic Integrity." Office of Student Conduct. University of Maryland, College Park, n.d. Web. 28 Aug. 2013.
<http://osc.umd.edu/Uploads/OSC/Code%20of%20Academic%20Integrity%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf>.
"Forms of Academic Dishonesty." The Academic Integrity Tutorial. York University, 26 Aug. 2012. Web. 28 Aug. 2013.
<http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/academic_integrity/acaddishforms.html>.
Jordan, D. K. (n.d.). Academic Integrity and Cheating / University of California San Diego. Retrieved from
http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/resources/cheat.html
"The Meaning and Prevention of Plagiarism." Redirect to Teaching Writing with Computers: Academic Integrity Project. University of California,
Davis, n.d. Web. 28 Aug. 2013. <http://cai.ucdavis.edu/plagiarism.html>.
"Plagiarism." Writing Tutorial Services (WTS): Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. Indiana University - Bloomington, 27 Apr. 2004.
Web. 28 Aug. 2013. <http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml>.
Student Handbook. Baltimore, MD: Greater Grace Christian Academy, 2013. Web. 28 Aug. 2013.
<http://www.GGIS.org/pdf/2012-2013_GGIS_Parent_Student_Handbook_1112.pdf>.