Academic Integrity PowerPoint for UNCW

2. TODAY’S AGENDA
1. Introduction & Orientation Review
2. Academic Honor Code/Academic Honor Pledge/Academic
Integrity
3. Cheating
4. Writing Papers
5. Conduct Process
6. Resources for Success

3. THE UNCW ACADEMIC HONOR CODE
The University of North Carolina Wilmington is a community of high academic
standards where academic integrity is valued.
UNCW students are committed to honesty and truthfulness in academic inquiry and in
the pursuit of knowledge.
This commitment begins
• when new students matriculate at UNCW
• continues as they create work of the highest quality while part of the university
community,
• endures as a core value throughout their lives.

4. THE UNCW HONOR PLEDGE
&
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
"As a student at The University of North Carolina Wilmington, I am committed to
honesty and truthfulness in academic inquiry and in the pursuit of knowledge. I
pledge to uphold and promote the UNCW Student Academic Honor Code.“
What is Integrity?
“Academic Integrity only matters if you get caught.“
Why should Academic Integrity be important to YOU as a UNCW student?

5. CHEATING
List all of the ways that people cheat on academic
assignments

6. PLAGIARISM
Definition:
Plagiarize: to steal or pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own; to
use (a
created production) without crediting the source. Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary
Springfield, MA: G.&C. Merriam Company, 1980.
Williams, Lisa. “Plagiarism-Student Guide”
http://library.uncw.edu/guides/plagiarism_student_guide

7. PARAPHRASING
Original passage
Mary had a little lamb with fleece as white as snow.
Everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. He
followed her to school one day, which was against the
rules. It made the children laugh and play to see a lamb
at school. [Goose, M. (1968). Mary had a little lamb.
Imagination, FL: Glad and Big Publishing.]
Williams, Lisa. “Plagiarism-Student Guide”
http://library.uncw.edu/guides/plagiarism_student_guide

8. UNACCEPTABLE PARAPHRASING
Mary possessed a small lamb with wool as white as snow. Everywhere that Mary
went
the lamb went too. He even followed her to school once, even though it was against
the rules. But all the children laughed and played to see the lamb at school.
Why?
• synonyms inserted for author's words
• the author's original sentence structure and tone is still there
• the passage is not cited in any way
• distinctive phrases such as "white as snow" should be in quotation marks
Williams, Lisa. “Plagiarism-Student Guide”
http://library.uncw.edu/guides/plagiarism_student_guide

9. ACCEPTABLE PARAPHRASING
WITHOUT QUOTATIONS
According to Goose (1968), Mary had a lamb that followed her
wherever she went. Although pets were forbidden at school, it
followed her there one day, much to the amusement of Mary‘s
friends (p. 5).
Williams, Lisa “Plagiarism-Student Guide”
http://library.uncw.edu/guides/plagiarism_student_guide

10. ACCEPTABLE PARAPHRASING
WITH QUOTATIONS
In a scene more suited to film noir than the nursery, we learn of Mary, a girl
possessed of a doppelganger in the form of a young sheep. This ubiquitous sheep,
pale as a proverbial ghost with "fleece as white as snow," relentlessly pursues Mary
wherever she goes. She cannot even get away from it by taking sanctuary at school,
where the lamb appears one day, frolicking with Mary's school chums. Mary suffers
severe discipline from her teachers, as it was "against the rules" to have such a
creature at school (Goose, 1968, p. 5).
Williams, Lisa. “Plagiarism-Student Guide”
http://library.uncw.edu/guides/plagiarism_student_guide

11. CUTTING & PASTING
What is the difference between writing a paper and compiling a
paper?

12. COLLABORATION
Your roommate reviewed your paper and:
• Circled errors
• Corrected errors
• Rewrote a few sentences
• Rewrote several large passages
• Gave you ideas for how to better construct your argument
Discuss the following:
• Which of these actions are ok?
• Which are not?
• How do you determine when collaboration crosses the line into cheating?
• What could have been done differently?