Academic Integrity

Key Vocabulary

100

What does plagiarism mean?

Plagiarism is defined as the representation of the

ideas or work of another person as your own. ( pictures, graphs, emails, ideas, maps, videos etc.)

200

What is a Works Cited list? 

A formal list of

the resources that you used in your work. You must provide

full information as to how a reader or viewer

of your work can find the same information.

300

WHat does misconduct mean?

Misconduct is a behavior that results in, or may

result in, you or any student gaining an unfair

advantage in one or more assessment components.

Misconduct includes plagiarism and collusion.

400

What does collusion mean? 

Allowing your work to be copied or submitted

for assessment by another student

or duplicating work for different assessment

components and/or diploma requirements.

500

What does MLA stand for? 

Modern Language Association

MLA formatting

100

What fon type is recommended in MLA?

Times New Roman

200

What font size do you have to use in MLA?

12pt

300

What do you have to do when you start a new paragraph?

Indent the first line. 

400

What information do you list in the upper left-hand corner?

In the upper left-hand corner of the first page, list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date. Again, be sure to use double-spaced text.

500

What information do you put in the header? 

Last name and page number

Referencing

100

What is it called when you reference your source in your text?

In-text citation

200

What are the 2 types of in-text citation?

paraphrasing

direct quote

300

What information do you put in the brackets for in-text citation? 

(Authors' last name page number) 

400

What information do you use if the article does not have an author?

Title, or anything that is the first part of the Works Cited list entry. 

500

When do you use in-text citation?

When you want to prove your point with scientific information. 

Point

Evidence (in-text citation)

Evaluation

Link

Resources

100

What is the resource list called in MLA?

Works Cited list

200

In what order do you list your resources?

In alphabetical order

300

Where is the resource list supposed to be in your document?

Last, sperate page of your document

400

What do you indent in your entries?

Indent the second and subsequent lines of your entries. 

500

How many entries should you have in your resource list?

As many as many in-text citations you have. 

Is it plagiarism?

100

1. A student uses an internet article in researching her paper. She finds several of the ideas in the article useful, and develops them in her own paper. Since she does not quote from the text, she does not cite it in her paper, but she does put the reference in the bibliography. 

1. This is plagiarism. Although the student was correct to cite the article in her bibliography, this is not enough. If she uses the ideas in her paper, she needs to acknowledge the source of those ideas in the paper itself. One way to do this is to acknowledge the source of the idea directly (i.e., “As Jones has pointed out, . . . .”) Even with this reference, the paper should also include a citation. Depending on your discipline, this could be an in-text citation or a footnote or endnote. 

200

1. In researching a paper on Mary Kingsley, a student discovers that Kingsley was born in Islington in 1862. She didn’t know this fact previously. However, every article she reads on Kingsley reports the same fact. She does not acknowledge the source of this information with a citation.

1. This is not plagiarism. Although the student didn’t know this fact before, it is an easily established fact that is well known to anyone who has written on Kingsley. Since it is undisputed and well known, it would fall into the category of “common knowledge,” and does not need to be cited. 

300

1. You are taking a class that a friend has already taken. She lets you read her paper in order to get some ideas, and tells you to use any parts of the paper you find useful. You incorporate some of her paragraphs into your paper without citation. 

1. This is plagiarism. The fact that your friend has given you permission to use her paper is not relevant; if you are presenting work that someone else has done as your own, it is still plagiarism. At Trinity, your friend would also be guilty of violating the Honor Code by helping you to plagiarize. 

400

1. A friend offers to let you read his paper in order to get some ideas, and tells you to use any parts of the paper you find useful. You incorporate one of his paragraphs into your paper, and you are careful to include all of the citations from his paper in your footnotes so that the reader will be able to find the original source of the information. 

1. This example is trickier – but it’s still plagiarism. Even if you include the citations, presenting someone else’s work as your own is plagiarism. Once again, your friend would be also in violation of the Honor Code.

500

1. A student finds a picture on the web that perfectly illustrates a point she wants to make in her paper. She downloads the picture, but does not use the website’s analysis; in addition, she writes her own caption for the picture. Since the analysis and caption are her own, she does not include a citation for the picture. 

1. It depends. If the image is well-known (i.e., a picture of the Mona Lisa), it can be considered common knowledge, and therefore would not need a citation. However, if the image is the product of another individual’s artistic or intellectual work (i.e., a personal photograph, even of a well-known artifact, like Chartres Cathedral; or a graph or chart that forms part of another person’s paper or research) it would be considered plagiarism. In general, if the image represents the artistic or intellectual work of another person, it should be cited.