Examples of Academic Integrity Violations
Examples of Academic Integrity violations include, but are not limited to:
Plagiarism: The most common form of academic dishonesty is presentation of the work of another person as one’s own and is referred to as “plagiarism.” Plagiarism is a serious academic infraction that tarnishes everyone associated with it. Civil and criminal penalties may also apply where conduct violates U. S. copyright laws.
Cheating: The use or sharing of confidential information by any means, including quizzes/tests/exams and/or completed assignments. This includes hired and/or compensated work from another person or organization to prepare and/or complete academic work on the learner’s behalf and hiring individuals or services to perform data collection and/or analyses for project or research studies.
Copy and Paste/Patchwriting: Pieced together the work of other people, section by section or as-a-whole, and presented such copied work as their own. Per the American Psychological Association, 2022, patchwriting is “when students mistakenly think they have paraphrased an author's words because they added or removed a few words or replaced some of the words with synonyms. This is called patchwriting. If your wording has a similar sentence structure and uses the same words and phrases of the original author, you are patchwriting.”
Direct Duplication: Copied of the work of another person and presented such copied work as their own; may include work from an article, website, book, online repository, or another student.
Paraphrasing: Paraphrased without citing or incorrectly citing the original author; did not give credit to another person's work when the ideas/facts presented were not their own.
False References: Used false references (incorporated references that are not relevant or are fictitious, to misrepresent sources).
Manipulated Assignment Submission: Manipulated an assignment to avoid detection of content that is non-original and/or similar to other sources by plagiarism software; this includes the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any form.
Self-Plagiarism or Submission of Work Previously Submitted for a Grade: Learners are not permitted to use previously submitted assignment content. This includes part of a paper or excerpts from a previously graded paper for an assignment from another class. The only exception is when the course Mentor grants permission to a learner repeating the same course to submit work that was previously graded in the same class or if work from one course carries over to another course as in the Doctoral project courses. The learner must notify the current course Mentor if they are repeating the course.
Use of Aids: The use of any aid and/or resource not expressly permitted. For example, the use of calculators, notes, textbooks, electronic recordings, cell phones, the Internet, and any other aid, device, or resource that is not expressly permitted to complete an assignment or course requirement for a grade.
Acts of Dishonesty: Any misrepresentation by any means and in any situation for the purpose of altering academic standing, delaying assignment submission, misrepresenting clinical/practicum/fieldwork activities/hours, or
Facilitating academic dishonesty: This is also considered a violation of CalSouthern’s Academic Integrity policy. It includes but is not limited to:
- Intentionally assisting another learner to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
- Attempting to assist another learner to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
- Not reporting another learner that is committing an act of academic dishonesty.
- While facilitating academic dishonesty may not directly benefit the facilitator, it does assist another learner in violation of the policy.
Other: Any activity, behavior, or representation to alter academic standing that a reasonable person in the discipline of study would consider dishonest or that violates the disciplines’ Professional Code of Ethics.