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Violation of Academic Integrity

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Violations of Academic Integrity

Violations of principles and practices of academic integrity fall into two subcategories: (1) plagiarism and misuse of sources and (2) cheating.

Plagiarism and Misuse of Sources

Plagiarism is the use without proper attribution of someone else’s words, ideas, or other work as if it were one’s own. Failure to properly indicate and acknowledge the work of others can lead a reader, listener, or viewer to think that information, research, ideas, words, images, data, artistic and creative elements, or other work are the student’s own efforts, when they are not. Plagiarism significantly departs from accepted standards in the academic community and misleads others into thinking the work is the student’s own.

Misuse of sources, like plagiarism, reflects failure to properly credit the work of others but involves errors, mistakes, incomplete or inadequate attempts and other errors in the citation, quotation, and attribution that would not seriously mislead others into thinking the work is the student’s own.
Plagiarism and misuse of sources carry different consequences, as described in Leighton University Academic Integrity Procedures.

The responsibility to give credit for material that would not qualify as common knowledge applies to almost all types of assignments and situations, not just papers, and not only to finished work but also submitted drafts. Work in which students must acknowledge sources and the contributions of others includes but is not limited to draft and final versions of the following:

  • Talks and other oral presentations
  • Visual aids, presentation slides, or other media tools
  • Websites, web pages, webcasts, and other multimedia work
  • Artistic, musical, and other creative work
  • Lab reports
  • Problem sets
  • Thesis chapters, papers, proposals, literature reviews, abstracts, annotated bibliographies, and other writing
  • Exams, including in-class and take-home exams.

Cheating

Cheating involves violating recognized norms for academic inquiry or specific norms established by faculty for particular assignments or using other methods, including technology, to gain unearned academic advantage. Examples of cheating include but are not limited to, the following:

  • Unauthorized collaboration
  • Using materials not permitted during an exam, when writing a paper, or in completing other assignments
  • Receiving assistance beyond what is permitted
  • Manufacturing or falsifying data
  • Submitting the same work to satisfy the requirements of two different courses without getting permission from the instructor of the second course or permission from both instructors if the same work is submitted in two courses during a single semester
  • Knowingly providing assistance of any kind to another person who is attempting to cheat or plagiarize.

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