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- Version:
- 12 June 2009
- CS 3172 Prof.:
- J. Blustein <jamie@cs.dal.ca>
CS3172 > Course > Syllabus > Appendix: Academic Integrity
* See below for credit.
At Dalhousie University, we respect the values of academic integrity: honesty, trust, fairness, responsibility and respect. As a Dalhousie student and a member of the academic community, you are expected to abide by these values and the policies which enforce them.
Academic integrity is ensuring that any work you submit is your own
and that you have given appropriate acknowledgement to any sources
that you consulted. Dalhousie University defines
plagiarism as the submission or presentation of the work of another
as if it were one's own. Plagiarism is considered a serious
academic offence which may lead to the assignment of a failing
grade, suspension or expulsion from the University.
(from Undergraduate Calendar (2008/2009) section on Intellectual Honesty, p. 23).
Some examples of plagiarism are:
Professors and TAs are highly skilled at recognizing discrepancies between writing styles, inappropriate citations, and obvious word-for-word copying. In addition, the Senate has affirmed the right of any instructor to require that student papers be submitted in both written and digital format, and to submit any paper to an originality check such as that performed by Turnitin.com for essay papers, and MOSS for software code. Copies of student essay papers checked by this process will be retained by Turnitin.com.
Instructors are required to forward any suspected cases of
plagiarism to the Academic Integrity Officer (AIO) for the Faculty.
You will be informed of the allegation by the AIO and a meeting will be convened. You may contact the
Dalhousie Student Advocacy Service who will be able to assist you in
preparing a defence. Until the case is resolved, your final grade
will be an PND
. If you are judged to have committed an offence,
penalties may include a loss of credit, F
in a
course, suspension or expulsion from the University, or even the
revocation of a degree (for more information see Dalhousie's Academic Integrity website).
You must do your own work and provide proper credit when quoting or paraphrasing the work of others. This policy applies equally to text, images, and program code. You may use any standard style guide you wish so long as you use it consistently.
When citing webpages you must include the following details:
Use of images (e.g. logos and icons) by
someone else is essentially the same as quoting text.
You must provide full citation information for any image that is
not your own, even if the image is royalty free
, you
purchased rights to use it, or it includes the trademark symbol
™
or registered trademark symbol ®
.
If you alter an image by someone else (for example by cropping or blurring it) or you combine two or more images to make a new image then you must identify the source of the original images (just as though you had used them without alteration) and note that you have modified, combined, or modified and combined the images.
The use of idea from another person must be accompanied by appropriate credit to that person and the location where the idea appeared (in print, on the WWW, in conversation, etc.):
You must provide all of the details for everything you use but you don't have to display all of those details on the same webpage where the text, images, code, etc. are being used. Three simple alternative solutions that will suffice for many assignments are:
*, dagger symbol
†, numerical citation e.g.
[1]) beside the part of the webpage that you need to provide citation information for, and include the citation information at the end of the webpage or make a link from the endnote symbol to another webpage that does have that information. You must ensure that it is clear which citation information refers to which part of the website.
In all circumstances, it is the student's responsbility to ensure that full credit is given and that it is clear whom is being credited for what.
Slides from a presentation about Academic Integrity to the class on 30 September 2008 by Ms. Nowakowski are online. Those slides are © copyright by her.
The document is adapted from the original version which is from the Faculty Resources section of Dalhousie University's Academic Integrity website (<URL:http://academicintegrity.dal.ca/Faculty%20Resources/index.php>) entitled Academic Integrity Statement for Syllabus. The original is dated 16 July 2008. It was copied on 25 September 2008.
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