LONG SCENARIOS
You have been up all night studying for your final exam tomorrow which starts at 4pm. Tomorrow morning, the day of the exam, you feel like you’ve got a bad cold and you miss the exam.
A day later, you decide to go to the doctor’s office for medication and an excuse. After you leave the doctor’s office, you realize that the Verification of Illness form he completed does not include the date of your exam that you missed. You decide that it would be okay to add the missing date to the form since that is the day when you initially got sick. Did you commit Academic Dishonesty?
YES - MISREPRESENTING FACTS FOR AN ACADEMIC ADVANTAGE
_____ is any tool that is deemed unsuitable for exam/test taking. Examples are outlined on the syllabus and can include cheat sheets and cellphones.
Unauthorized aid
How can you prevent plagiarism?
Properly cite
Avoid overly paraphrasing
_________Tools that convert your voice into written notes or captions.
Speech-to-text AI
You are required to pair off on an assignment. You don’t know them very well, but decided to work together since the student appears to be doing well in the course. You decide to divide the assignment so that each of you is responsible for different parts. You then make sure that the parts come together coherently and submit the assignment as a whole.
Later you're both contacted since Turnitin detected plagiarism in the parts of the assignment that your partner was responsible for completing. Did you commit Academic Dishonesty?
Yes - plagiarism.
Every member of the group is responsible for the work that is submittd.
Taking a friend's test, using someone else's iClicker, signing off on an attendance sheet if not present.
Substituting for someone else
Which UTRGV office can help you learn proper citation?
The Writing Center
__________Tools that create visuals, charts, or graphics based on prompts.
Image Generation
You write a final essay in ENG210 on the topic you are very interested in. You get an A- and a lot of helpful and encouraging comments from the TA about how your essay can be developed further.
For your final essay in ENG250, which you take the following year, you decide to work on the same topic and use the opportunity to further improve your essay from ENG210. You use a couple of paragraphs from your earlier work to ground your argument in and do further research in order to enrich your essay. Did you commit Academic Dishonesty?
Yes- self plagiarism if you didn't get approval from your professor in ENG250.
Using an idea without referencing the source, copying direct material, memorizing and reproducing material without acknowledgement.
Plagiarism
What can you review to see what your professor allows in their class?
Course syllabus
________ Answers written questions, gives ideas, or helps explain something.
Text-based AI
You look over your course notes before the final exam. You place them in your sweater sleeve before getting to class, in case you may need them later since you feel unsure.
While taking your exam paper, your professor notices a page of your study notes sticking out from your sleeve. Did you commit Academic Dishonesty?
Yes- General and Cheating due to it constituting an attempt to gain an unfair advantage and being in possession of an unauthorized aid.
____ is submitting the same work twice (without obtaining permission from instructors).
Self-plagiarism
______ informs students about student expectations at the university.
Code of Conduct/STU 02-100
________Tools that check your spelling and grammar use, or reword sentences.
Writing Help
Your professor only allows the course textbook and lectures to be used as sources for your class papers and doesn't allow the use of AI tools. You've been behind on your reading and feel like you need further information to understand the topic so you do a Google search for research.
You then use Grammarly and ChatGPT to proofread your paper and approve the changes they recommended. Did you commit Academic Dishonesty?
Yes- using outside sources (Google) would be considered cheating since your professor doesn't allow them + you used AI tools which aren't allowed either.
Who takes the responsibility if your group member plagiarizes for an assignment?
All group members.
The __________ can help tutor you on subjects you may be struggling with.
Learning Center
Overreliance of _____ may result in flagging as AI content.
Grammarly