Academic Integrity & Plagiarism Tutorial: Academic Integrity

As a personal value, academic integrity involves doing work in an honest, ethical, and honorable way, and not attempting to misrepresent oneself or one's work in others. Saint Anselm College expects its students to develop and exemplify this value throughout their four years of study. Academic integrity is everyone's responsibility--students need to be honorable about the work they produce, while faculty need to be honest and transparent with their assignments and grading. When all students and faculty exhibit academic integrity, it fosters a climate of mutual trust and respect among them. Failing to maintain academic integrity causes harm to the community in several ways:

• The student's learning experience is diminished
• Other students or scholars fail to receive credit for their own words or ideas
• Faculty's trust in student honesty is compromised
• When a classmate's dishonest work receives a good grade, students who work hard and follow the rules feel like their efforts are devalued
• If the violation goes unpunished, other students may consider cheating the next time

As a set of behaviors, academic integrity can be demonstrated by adhering to a few simple rules when producing papers or presentations. Charles Lipson outlines three principles that all students should follow:

• "When you say you did the work yourself, you actually did it.
• when you rely on someone else's work, you cite it. When you use their words, you quote them openly and accurately, and you cite them, too.
• When you present research materials, you present them fairly and truthfully. That's true whether the research involves data, documents, or other writings of other scholars." (Lipson 3)

Works Cited
Lipson, Charles. Doing Honest Work in College. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Print.

At Saint Anselm College, guided by our Catholic & Benedictine traditions, we value treating everyone with respect as we believe each person is unique in the eyes of God. Our community of students, faculty, staff, and administrators collaborated within a framework or learning and faith. Our environment fosters critical thinking and ethical behavior. The community expects adherence to principles of honesty, fairness, equity, mutual respect, and accountability, Violating these standards undermines learning, stifles innovations, and impedes the exchange of ideas. Therefore, we are steadfast in our commitment to abstain from academic dishonesty and to discourage it in others. We prioritize academic integrity.

Every member of the College community is required to understand, uphold, and comply with the College's Academic Integrity policy. This duty encompasses disclosing any knowledge or suspicion of breaches of this policy to the relevant faculty member or to the appropriate Class Dean. Faculty must include reference to their field, course, or assignments, Students are required to know and understand how the College Academic Integrity policy applies in each of the course they take.

Students should be prepared -- up to one month beyond the due date of an assessment to submit all notes, drafts, and source information which might be requested by an instructor, chairperson, or committee investigating the authenticity of that work. 

Violations of the Academic Integrity Policy include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Cheating -- Students are expected to rely on their individual mastery of subject material, without the use of outside aids, unless otherwise permitted by the instructor. Cheating includes but is not limited to:
   1. Copying another student's work
   2. Allowing another student to copy their work or otherwise giving unpermitted assistance to another student.
   3.  Using materials not allowed by the instructor (such as notes, texts, calculators, translators/translations, the internet, wearable devices, software, internet text generators such as ChatGPT or Open AI, Grammarly or other AI based grammar and writing software, previous years' notes).
   4. Accessing a copy of the exam ahead of time.
   5.  Having another person write a paper, assignment, lab report or other assessment, or having them sit for an examination.
   6. Storing unauthorized materials (cheat sheets or notes) in accessible or hidden locations (bathroom or other) during examinations.
   7. Revising and resubmitting any assessment without the instructor's knowledge or permission.
2. Falsification/fabrication -- Students are expected to submit data and facts they created or trust. They may not deliberately falsify, fabricate, alter, or invent data, results, audio, video, information, or citations. Students must proofread and verify all information obtained from internet text generators such as ChatGPT (when students are allowed to use these), since these sources can generate false, biased, and harmful information. 
3. Plagiarism -- Plagiarism occurs when a student presents another person or source's work or words as if they were the student's own, without acknowledgement or citation. Use of another's ideas, contributions, facts, arguments, sentences, key ideas, opinions, or data without acknowledgment or citation is not permitted. Students are responsible for citing their sources in the appropriate manner, consistent with the instructor's directions. Plagiarism includes but is not limited to:
   1. Wholly or partially copying, translating, or paraphrasing print or online sources without acknowledgement or citation of that source. This includes using language from an internet text generator without citing that sources.
   2. Failing to acknowledge, document, or cite a source, or failing to put quotation marks around and cite the words of other sources, even if the action is unintentional. 
4. Duplicate submission of work -- Work can only be submitted once for credit. Students must not submit the same assignment in two or more courses without prior permission of both instructors.