Academic IntegrityEssay Preview: Academic IntegrityReport this essayAcademic IntegrityAbstractThe essay describes the phenomenon of academic integrity. In particular, it highlights and explains the values of academic integrity. In addition, it also outlines the importance of academic honesty in the academic institution. Issues, which lead to academic dishonesty, are covered and the solutions to academic dishonesty are given. Generally, the students are encouraged to remain academically honest to improve their academic research. This will be done through careful consideration of the rules and regulations concerning academic integrity.
IntroductionAcademic honesty can be defined as presenting academic work without plagiarism, cheating, lying, falsifying and receiving unauthorized help from any person. Academic dishonesty refers to helping other individuals complete their work. Academic honesty (integrity) means the students work is original and sincere. Only the allowed assistance should be permitted and the rules and guidelines of the institution should be adhered to. The intellectual property, ideas, the words and scholarship of others used in the students work should be correctly acknowledged (Gallant, 2008).
Academic integrity is important in the students academic knowledge. Students are academically evaluated; hence, it is very critical that the academic records remain consistent and accurate. It is very important to note that the integrity of students shown at the university level will reflect their professional integrity once they complete the course work. It has been noted that, academic integrity involves all the individuals of the academic community. The academic community includes the following; students, staff and the faculty (Lathrop and Foss, 2005).
In this modern era, there is a sequence being set by college and high school students; the sequence is moving from academic integrity to academic dishonesty. The internet is the biggest contributor to academic dishonesty as there is readily and easily available information; there is useful information readily accessible on the internet. Students can cheat by copying and pasting the information to the word document and presenting it as their original work. Most students know that since the information is readily and easily available, they can cheat and they will not be caught. Nevertheless, some applications have been designed to detect where one gets the information from and the exact paper the information the ideas were borrowed from (Macfarlane, 2009).
The internet is the largest contributor to academic dishonesty, and the very same online system that is used by the student for online quizzes in computer science is responsible for cheating.
The website of Wikipedia states: “If you look closely (and if you don’t) at the names of all people who are listed on Wikipedia as ‘anti-racists’, you will find no mention at all of Adolf Hitler”.
Although there is some debate about the exact cause of the Wikipedia cheating, a number of conspiracy theories exist. These are based on many sources – including Google, and even Wikipedia – and are based on information being found by other people.
Wikipedia is an anti-nazi website in a sense, as it was established by an anti-racism group. Wikipedia is a website that is being run by the Anti-Nazi Alliance (now called the Anti-Nazi Coalition on Wikipedia for Peace, Education, and the First World). The Anti-Nazi Coalition was originally established to investigate the internet’s “online racism” with a focus on the Wikipedia cheating, but it quickly expanded in 2014 as people became concerned with the anti-nazi site’s website.
Wikipedia is now owned by a non-profit corporation headquartered in the US (Wikipedia Associates LLC). However, there are two companies (known as “Wiki Foundation.”) who are listed on Wikipedia in Canada, one on behalf of the Wikipedia Organization, and another on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, currently in place by a third party. They both deny that there is any cheating on Wikipedia and maintain that cheating on Wikipedia is acceptable. While the two corporations do not deny any cheating, they do claim to be working on a system to bring about public awareness about any instances of cheating. All the sites on Wikipedia are currently run entirely by self-funded individuals (Wikisciens are no longer operating.) The Anti-Nazi Alliance maintains an archive of information on the Internet, with some of it appearing to have been created by people who came from the internet. Wikipedia is described by one of them as having an “online racist community”.
Wikisciens are no longer running these websites, but they claim that the site is not a fraud operation. The Wikia site in the US is owned by an independent registered trademark company with a history spanning back to the late 1990s. This trademark company is in its early stages and no evidence has ever been found to support its claims.
Wikisciens have maintained that the Internet is a legitimate marketplace and we have never been fooled by the accusations of any of the sites being used to cheat the world about any of the information. It is estimated that around 1 in 2 of 7 people who visit a given site on Wikipedia are members or employees and around 1 in 3 are members or employees of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia has an online censorship policy, often with some kind of agreement between the site owners and the users. Many sites that are used by the users are very popular for both information gathering and promoting. Wikipedia has a special section named “Top 100
The internet is the largest contributor to academic dishonesty, and the very same online system that is used by the student for online quizzes in computer science is responsible for cheating.
The website of Wikipedia states: “If you look closely (and if you don’t) at the names of all people who are listed on Wikipedia as ‘anti-racists’, you will find no mention at all of Adolf Hitler”.
Although there is some debate about the exact cause of the Wikipedia cheating, a number of conspiracy theories exist. These are based on many sources – including Google, and even Wikipedia – and are based on information being found by other people.
Wikipedia is an anti-nazi website in a sense, as it was established by an anti-racism group. Wikipedia is a website that is being run by the Anti-Nazi Alliance (now called the Anti-Nazi Coalition on Wikipedia for Peace, Education, and the First World). The Anti-Nazi Coalition was originally established to investigate the internet’s “online racism” with a focus on the Wikipedia cheating, but it quickly expanded in 2014 as people became concerned with the anti-nazi site’s website.
Wikipedia is now owned by a non-profit corporation headquartered in the US (Wikipedia Associates LLC). However, there are two companies (known as “Wiki Foundation.”) who are listed on Wikipedia in Canada, one on behalf of the Wikipedia Organization, and another on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, currently in place by a third party. They both deny that there is any cheating on Wikipedia and maintain that cheating on Wikipedia is acceptable. While the two corporations do not deny any cheating, they do claim to be working on a system to bring about public awareness about any instances of cheating. All the sites on Wikipedia are currently run entirely by self-funded individuals (Wikisciens are no longer operating.) The Anti-Nazi Alliance maintains an archive of information on the Internet, with some of it appearing to have been created by people who came from the internet. Wikipedia is described by one of them as having an “online racist community”.
Wikisciens are no longer running these websites, but they claim that the site is not a fraud operation. The Wikia site in the US is owned by an independent registered trademark company with a history spanning back to the late 1990s. This trademark company is in its early stages and no evidence has ever been found to support its claims.
Wikisciens have maintained that the Internet is a legitimate marketplace and we have never been fooled by the accusations of any of the sites being used to cheat the world about any of the information. It is estimated that around 1 in 2 of 7 people who visit a given site on Wikipedia are members or employees and around 1 in 3 are members or employees of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia has an online censorship policy, often with some kind of agreement between the site owners and the users. Many sites that are used by the users are very popular for both information gathering and promoting. Wikipedia has a special section named “Top 100
Values of Academic IntegrityAcademic integrity affects five significant values, which include sincerity, trust, justice, reverence and responsibility. These guiding values guide academic communities in academic integrity (Smith, 2008).
Sincerity is clear in how the faculty and the staff exhibit integrity and honesty in the institution. The staff and the entire faculty need to set a good example for students to follow. The academic community should search for truth and knowledge by using intellectual and individual honesty in research, learning and teaching (Anderman and Murdock, 2007).
Trust is the value that looks at the overall trust that exists in the learning institution. In addition, specific tendencies that exhibit the presence or absence of trust are taken into consideration. Academic communities should promote joint trust and encourage the free exchange of ideas. This is to enable all the students learning at the institution to achieve their highest potential (Smith, 2008).
Justice determines if the students in the institution are being treated equally. Specific attributes that exhibit the presence or absence of equality are checked. The setting where the issues of fairness are discussed in the institution is also evaluated. This value establishes clear standards, procedures and practices of students, the staff and faculty. The fairness of the interaction of students is also looked at (Anderman and Murdock, 2007).
The students, faculty and the staff to one another should demonstrate reverence; ways of showing respect should be explained. The academic community should recognize participatory learning process. The opinions and ideas should come from a wide range and be honored (Smith, 2008).
In the academic community, students should understand their responsibility for honest academic research. The students should have a responsibility to take action if there is academic dishonesty. The academic community should advocate for personal accountability in case of academic dishonesty (Gallant, 2008).
Ways that Compromises Academic integrityWhen writing an academic research, other peoples work should be recognized and acknowledged. This will show professionalism of the work by being honest and trustworthy. Therefore, plagiarism, collusion, fabrication, recycling and other forms of cheating (Smith, 2008) compromise academic integrity.
Plagiarism is using someones ideas either intentional or unintentional for your own benefit. Research that has used someones work without recognizing the author is not original. Some students commit plagiarism due to poor or incorrect referencing (Gallant, 2008).
Collusion on the other hand, is presenting an individual work that has been done by unauthorized collaboration. Most of the students when given an individual research to do independently they commit collusion by doing it with other unauthorized people. Therefore, collusion is presenting work that has not been independently done (Smith, 2008).
There are other forms of cheating where an individual allows his work to be copied by someone else. A student allows the research that he/she did to be copied by another student and present it as the original work (Lathrop and Foss, 2005).
Fabrication is the representation of data and observation as original and genuine when it is not. This involves using other peoples data without acknowledgement. This breeches academic integrity if other peoples data and observation are used without recognizing and acknowledging them (Macfarlane,