Introduction to the Library for International Students and New Immigrants

Academic integrity means making thoughtful decisions about how you use other people's research and present your work. It is important that you clearly show which ideas are your own, which ideas were developed by other researchers, and document where your data comes from and what methodologies were used to create it. Your instructors will evaluate your projects based in large part on the strength of your evidence in addition to the originality and integrity of your ideas. Producing honest, well-cited work will not only play a big part in determining your marks, but also figuring out where you made mistakes and how you can improve. For a more in-depth look at academic integrity, we recommend you view a series of  YouTube videos we've created on the subject. Each video covers a specific topic, such as paraphrasing or citing your sources.

Plagiarism is defined as:

• not giving recognition to the original author[s] for phrases, sentences, thoughts, code, or arguments incorporated in the student’s written work, (including software or other digital sources), which can take the form of incomplete footnotes, endnotes, references and/or bibliographies;
• not using quotation marks or referencing appropriately when quoting directly;
• submitting someone else’s work as your own (either a paper you’ve paid for, or one a friend wrote for you).
• not referencing appropriately when summarizing to indicate the source of the ideas and work of another;
• submitting the same work for evaluation to more than one course without the consent of each instructor to do so;
• two or more students submitting identical or virtually identical work for evaluation when the work was intended to be completed individually.