seas academic expectations 2015-2016

Academic Expectations

School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)

2015-2016

This presentation will cover• Academic Expectations at GW• Consequences • Writing Tips & Research Tools

Welcome to GW SEAS

Intro Expectations Consequences Tips & Tools Quiz

What is Academic Dishonesty?

“Academic dishonesty is defined as cheating of any kind, including misrepresenting one’s own work, taking credit for the work of others without crediting them and without appropriate authorization, and the fabrication of information” (Academic Code of Conduct).

Examples: Cheating, Fabrication, Falsification, Facilitating, Plagiarism

Academic Expectations


• Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise• Copying from another student’s examination• Submitting work for an in-class examination that has been prepared in advance • Representing material prepared by another as one’s own work• Submitting the same work in more than one course without prior permission of both instructors • Violating rules governing administration of examinations• Violating any rules relating to academic conduct of a course or program

What is Cheating?


Intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any data, information, or citation in an academic exercise.

Fabrication= falsification, lie, untruth

What is Fabrication?


• Knowingly making a false statement • Concealing material information• Forging a University official’s signature on any University academic document or record (including: transcripts, add-drop forms, requests for advanced standing, requests to register for graduate-level courses, etc.)

Falsification or forgery of non-academic University documents (such as financial aid forms) is a violation of the non-academic student disciplinary code.

What is Falsification?


Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.

For Example:

Joe is studying for an exam and decides to call his friend Sean, who took the exam last semester, and ask him what questions were on the exam.

Both Students Would Be In Trouble

Sean is in violation of facilitating academic dishonesty because he provided Joe with material that allowed Joe to gain an unfair advantage over his classmates.

What is Facilitating?


• Intentionally representing the words, ideas, or sequence of ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise

• Failure to attribute any of the following: quotations, paraphrases, or borrowed information

What is Plagiarism?


Important to GW SEAS Mission and ethical pillar to our core mission

• School goal of ethical path to academic pursuits

Affects your academic program• Time• Degree Attainment

Why Should You Care..?


• Formal• Informal

Consequences


Example of aFormal Consequence:

Academic Integrity Council Charge of Academic Dishonesty Form


Students have an opportunity to complete this portion of the form if faced with an Academic Integrity violation.


Code of Academic Integrity

Code of Student Conduct

University Policies

Academic Integrity FAQs

Tips for avoiding plagiarism

Academic Resource: Links to Know


https://studentconduct.gwu.edu/sites/studentconduct.gwu.edu/files/downloads/130722%20Code%20of%20Academic%20Integrity%20-%20Final.pdf

https://studentconduct.gwu.edu/sites/studentconduct.gwu.edu/files/downloads/120905%20Code%20of%20Student%20Conduct%20-%20Final.pdf

http://studentconduct.gwu.edu/policies

http://studentconduct.gwu.edu/academic-integrity-faqs

http://www.iit.edu/cac/student_resources/general/plagiarism.shtml

More Tips….To avoid plagiarism, cheating and fabrication, follow these guidelines:

• Don't rely too much on one source

• CITE, CITE, CITE

• Use quotation marks (“ ”) appropriately

• Keep accurate records while doing research and taking notes or you may lose track of where an idea came from.

• If you do not know where you got an idea or piece of information, do not use it in your paper until you find out.

• You will need to keep track of authors, titles, page numbers, and publication information to cite each source correctly. (Refer to “Managing Your References & Citations” slide, later in this presentation, which provides tools to help you manage your research.)

• CITE, CITE, CITE


What can you do?• Visit GW Writing Center

• Talk to your Professor

• Learn 6th American Psychological Association (APA) Edition Citations

• Visit the Library Graduate Student Library Orientations

• Paraphrase and use citations

• Use Turn-it In or other software to make sure you are not plagiarizing to ensure you are citing correctly.


http://library.gwu.edu/spotlights/posts/library-orientations-0



Writing tips

Creative Commons (What’s allowed/Not allowed)

GW Electronic Theses & Dissertations

SEAS Doctoral Student Handbook

Tools for Writing: Links to Know


http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/683/01/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

http://library.gwu.edu/etds/

https://www.seas.gwu.edu/sites/www.seas.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Doctoral_Handbook2013_2014.com

Mendeley

Refworks

LaTeX

Managing your References & Citations: You Will Want to Use These…


http://www.mendeley.com/

http://libguides.gwu.edu/refworks

http://libguides.gwu.edu/content.php?pid=520994&sid=4308226

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