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English Language Institute: Academic Integrity

Ethics of research and information seeking

Definition

Any form of dishonesty by a student in the course of customary academic endeavor
An offense committed against the integrity and good name of the college or university within which the offense takes place
IN OTHER WORDS: Academic dishonesty takes place in a specific geographic or physical location

Forms of academic dishonesty

Lying/deception
Claiming to have submitted work that you didn’t
Making up a reason for missing a deadline
Lying to an instructor about the reason for a class absence

Cheating
Sharing information with a classmate during an exam
Copying someone’s assignment and submitting it as your own work
Purchasing an essay, term paper or other document from an online paper mill or other provider; this includes paying someone to write a paper or complete an assignment
Collusion: conspiring with another student to cheat
 
Fabrication
Making up information or research
Falsifying results on a survey or study
 
Sabotage
Destroying someone else’s work to give yourself an advantage
Destroying resources so that someone else cannot profit from them
Definitions adapted from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org)