Academic Honesty Basics
This UHD policy outlines the rules, regulations, procedures, and processes for academic honesty.
What is the Academic Honesty policy or PS 03.A.19?
Copying another student's test answer or using your phone to answer a test question, when has been forbidden in the course is this type of academic misconduct.
What is Cheating?
This UHD center offers free writing and reading support to all currently enrolled students and alumni.
What is the Writing and Reading Center
Refers to the most commonly issued sanction assigned to a student when they have been found responsible for an Academic Honesty violation.
What is an F or 0 on the assignment/exam?
This academic value means being truthful, fair, and responsible in your written work, assignments, and tests.
What is Academic Honesty?
This person is responsible for reporting violations of Academic Honesty
What is the teacher/professor or faculty?
Submitting the same paper for two different classes without permission or representing someone's thought, work, or idea as your own is this type of academic misconduct.
What is Plagiarism?
Refers to the new location of the WRC.
One Main Building N530 or N530
This student's right ensures that students are informed of allegations against them, have a meaningful method to address the claims, and appeal the decision.
What is Due Process?
A student forgets to include the author’s name when paraphrasing their textbook.
What is Plagiarism or Unintentional Plagiarism?
This office oversees the facilitation of the Academic Honesty policy at UHD.
What is the Provost or Academic Affairs office?
The use of these new online tools has been the source of over 80% of the academic honesty violations at UHD.
What is Artificial Intelligence or AI, or generative AI?
Students can meet with WRC tutors either in person or through this online format.
What is online tutoring?
Refers to the sanction most commonly issued for multiple violations of Academic Honesty within the same course.
What is an F in the course?
The Writing & Reading Center can assist with this type of writing, including, but not limited to: 1) Essays, Creative Writing, 3) Lab Reports, 4) Scholarship letters, 5) and cover letters for employment.
What is personal or academic writing?
This office serves as the recorder and maintainer of records associated with Academic Honesty reports and adjudications.
What is the Dean of Students office
Giving your completed homework to another student so they can turn it in.
Unauthorized Group Work or Cheating
Besides writing, the WRC also provides support in this skill that strengthens comprehension and analysis.
What is reading?
Refers to the number of appeal opportunities a student can have for an academic honesty violation case.
What is 4 (four)?
Refers to this list of learning opportunities within the WRC: 1) Brainstorming writing ideas, 2) Developing ideas more fully, 3) Revising a completed draft, 4) Learning how to edit your writing, 5) Understanding instructor feedback, 7) Reading material for courses and 8) Learning studying skills
What are writing skills?
This process includes review and decisions by the faculty member, Department Chair, office of the Dean, and Student Discipline Committee.
What is the Appeals process?
Falsifying research data or sources associated with an assignment can be this type of academic misconduct
What is Fabrication?
The WRC website provides resources and handouts covering topics such as grammar, formatting, and these popular citation styles.
What are APA, MLA, and Chicago?
This is the most severe sanctions that a student can receive as a result of being found responsible for an academic violation.
What is suspension or expulsion?
This practice ensures that your arguments are credible, research is verifiable, and academic honesty is maintained.
What is proper citation or proper documentation?