Academic Jeopardy

Plagiarism

100

Is most plagiarism intentional or accidental?

Accidental

200

Students who plagiarize harm what? How?

Themselves. They miss out on opportunities to gain knowledge.

300

Students who are caught plagiarizing a paper for the first time will face this penalty (at a minimum)

What is failing the course assignment?

400

Students who are caught plagiarizing for the second time will face this penalty (at minimum)

What is failing the course?

500

What is the surest way, when you are working with notes, to avoid unintentional plagiarism?

Only write direct quotations in notebook.

Guess that term

100

use of any unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic sense.

cheating 

200

Falsification of data, information, or citations.

Fabrication

300

Helping another student cheat and/or plagiarize (providing old papers, tests, or giving them a website to cheat).

Facilitating Academic Dishonesty 

400

DAILY DOUBLE!! Copying the words, ideas, or sentences of another's work without giving them proper acknowledgment.

Plagiarism

500

Paying another person or website money or use of an outside resource to do your work for you.

"Collaborative" work

Avoid Plagiarism

100

If you must complete a research project to earn a grade in a course, handing in a paper you already earned credit for in another course is deceitful. What should you do if you want to rework a paper that you turned in for another course?

Ask your current instructor.

200

When purchasing a research paper, this is the best (and typically, only) way to avoid violating academic integrity principles

What is A TRICK QUESTION, THERE IS NO WAY!

300

If collaborating on a group project, how would you give credit to each person?

You could document the names as a collective effort, or you could document the names and state the task(s) that each person completed.

400

This is the citation style used in most or all SPH courses.

What is AMA style?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!! This is how often you should cite a source in a paper. 

What is after every single sentence where you include an idea that is not your own (or common knowledge)?

GWU

100

This is our unofficial mascot

What is the Hippopotamus?

200

GWU was founded in this year

What is 1821?

300

This library on campus is open 24 hours a day.

What is Gelman Library?

400

Students must take this many WID courses in order to graduate

What is two (2)?

500

This is the total number of living GW alumni across the world.

What is 300,000?