National Academy of Professional Studies

1. There is a participation mark given for your tutorials and an attendance sheet is passed around at each session. You cannot make it today and you ask your friend to sign in for you. Are you allowed to do this?

This would be considered impersonation and would result in a warning only.

This is a common practice and it is not considered to be academic misconduct.

2. Last term you wrote an essay which is slightly similar to the topic your professor has assigned this semester. Can you incorporate this paper into the paper you are now supposed to write without being accused of academic misconduct?

Yes, you can if you talk to your professors and they provide permission in writing.

Handing in the same paper (or large sections of the same paper) twice is always academic misconduct without referencing.

If you know that the particular professor usually allows students to do this, you can go ahead and use your earlier paper without worrying about it.

3. One of your courses has a series of online quizzes which individual students have to pass before going on to the next stage of the course. You normally prefer to do the quizzes with a group. Would this be considered academic misconduct?

No, it would not be considered academic misconduct. It is an example of group collaboration.

Yes, it would be considered academic misconduct. The university would consider this to be unauthorized cooperation or collaboration.

4. You are writing an exam and you notice that the person next to you is looking at your answers. What should you do?

Move your paper and place your arm so that your exam booklet is out of the person's line of vision.

Don't do anything; it's not your responsibility, and in addition, you can't afford to waste precious time when you could be answering questions.

Call the exam supervisor and report the other student.

5. You are writing a report on death and during your research you have talked to a family friend whose child recently died. You want to include something she said to you, although it is not a quotation. Do you have to reference this, and if so, how would you do it?

Put a parenthetical note (if in APA style, which is suitable for the social sciences) as follows: (J. Doe, personal communication, April 1, 2004), but do not put it into the reference list.

Since no one could check on this, and you are really putting it into your own words, it is not necessary to cite it at all.

It is sufficient to mention in your text that a friend had experienced this situation.

6. You like the examples several authors have used to prove a point and you want to pull them all together and use them in your own paper in a list. What should you do?

Examples used to prove a point are managed a little differently than opinions, ideas, or facts. These are treated the same way we would treat common knowledge, and not referenced.

Include a citation after each separate example to indicate where you found them.

Include them in one citation or endnote after you have finished listing them.

7. You have found an article on the Web in a foreign language and you have either translated some passages from it yourself or used an on-line language translator to translate it into English. By the time you write it in good academic English no one would be able to trace it. What do you do?

It is the same as any other article and you have to cite it.

No one would ever be able to find out where you found your ideas. Forget about citing it.

8. Last week your professor talked about her theory of the best method for electoral reform in a lecture. Since she knows all about it, do you need to reference this?

Since you are writing the paper for your professor, it is understood that all that has been said in the lectures are part of the common knowledge of the course.

You need to cite it in the body of your paper but not in the reference list.

You need to cite it in the body of your paper and in the reference list.

9. You had a brilliant idea about the short story you are writing an essay about. But when reading an article about the short story, you see that the same idea is mentioned. It was your own idea too, so do you need to reference it?

Yes. Even if you did think of the idea on your own you still need to reference the published source. Otherwise, readers will accuse you of plagiarism. You can use this source to support your argument, and you can try to show how your idea differs from the other author's, but you still have to cite the other source.

No. If you come up with an idea on your own, you don't have to cite the other source.

10. The benefits of using citation and the appropriate style are:

You are providing hard evidence or expert witnesses to support your argument.

You let your reader know that you are working within the academic framework.

You avoid charges of plagiarism.

All of the above.

11. Do you think that the following passage from a student paper is suspicious? Landscapes are made up of things that work together to make them look good or bad. We have to think about them to understand landscapes. Depending on how we see these objects - our distance from them, for example, we can treat them as one of four basic elements - a point, a line, a plane or a volume. An example is when we see things in the distance we think of them as points, especially when there is nothing else in the landscape.

It looks logical, so it must be fine. In any case, how would we know if the student had plagiarized part of it?

The writing style varies enough from sentence to sentence to make me suspect that the student has plagiarized some of the words.

12. You and a classmate discuss ideas for an assignment but you do not write down the same points and do not prepare the same information. Is this collusion (cheating)?

Yes

No

13. What does APA stand for?

Avoid Plagiarism Association

Anti Plagiarism Association

American Psychological Association

14. Sources in a Reference List should be in alphabetical order?

True

False

15. In APA referencing what does pp. stand for?

Page

Pages

Paragraph

Paper

16. You are referencing a website, which part of the reference comes first?

URL

author/sponsor/organization

Year

Title of Website

17. You use a quotation from a book in your assignment. How would you write the in-text citation?

Author, Year, Page Number

Author, Page Number

Author, Year

Author, Title

18. What does APA stand for?

Statistics are an example of common or general knowledge.

True

False

19. Choose the correct format for citing personal communication:

(Cole, personal communication, September 8, 2019)

(R. Cole, personal communication, September 8, 2019)

20. In-text citations to paraphrased text must provide page/paragraph numbers:

True

False

Our Story

Our Mission

Our Accreditation

Our Campus

Our People

Our Governance

Academic Integrity Module

1. There is a participation mark given for your tutorials and an attendance sheet is passed around at each session. You cannot make it today and you ask your friend to sign in for you. Are you allowed to do this?

2. Last term you wrote an essay which is slightly similar to the topic your professor has assigned this semester. Can you incorporate this paper into the paper you are now supposed to write without being accused of academic misconduct?

3. One of your courses has a series of online quizzes which individual students have to pass before going on to the next stage of the course. You normally prefer to do the quizzes with a group. Would this be considered academic misconduct?

4. You are writing an exam and you notice that the person next to you is looking at your answers. What should you do?

5. You are writing a report on death and during your research you have talked to a family friend whose child recently died. You want to include something she said to you, although it is not a quotation. Do you have to reference this, and if so, how would you do it?

6. You like the examples several authors have used to prove a point and you want to pull them all together and use them in your own paper in a list. What should you do?

7. You have found an article on the Web in a foreign language and you have either translated some passages from it yourself or used an on-line language translator to translate it into English. By the time you write it in good academic English no one would be able to trace it. What do you do?

8. Last week your professor talked about her theory of the best method for electoral reform in a lecture. Since she knows all about it, do you need to reference this?

9. You had a brilliant idea about the short story you are writing an essay about. But when reading an article about the short story, you see that the same idea is mentioned. It was your own idea too, so do you need to reference it?

10. The benefits of using citation and the appropriate style are:

12. You and a classmate discuss ideas for an assignment but you do not write down the same points and do not prepare the same information. Is this collusion (cheating)?

13. What does APA stand for?

14. Sources in a Reference List should be in alphabetical order?

15. In APA referencing what does pp. stand for?

16. You are referencing a website, which part of the reference comes first?

17. You use a quotation from a book in your assignment. How would you write the in-text citation?

18. What does APA stand for?

19. Choose the correct format for citing personal communication:

20. In-text citations to paraphrased text must provide page/paragraph numbers: