Academic Dishonesty Definitions
Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise. The term academic exercise includes all forms of work submitted for credit or hours.
What is Cheating?
The way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source.
The commitment to and demonstration of honest and moral behavior in an academic setting.
Northwest students will understand the role of writing and speaking in living and learning, and speak and write effectively in a variety of contexts.
What is Communication?
The deliberate adoption or reproduction of ideas, words or statements of another person as one's own without explicit acknowledgment or citation. However, the adoption or reproduction of the ideas or words of another person as one's own without complete and correct acknowledgment, often the result of a misunderstanding or citational misattribution, can be considered unintentional.
What is plagiarism?
A group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.
Receives all official charges of violations to the Code of Academic Integrity.
What is the Office of the Provost?
https://www.nwmissouri.edu/policies/academics/Academic-Integrity.pdf
Northwest students will engage in disciplined thought to generate and communicate ideas.
What is Critical Thinking?
The intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.
What is Fabrication?
Express the meaning of (something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.
Includes university students, faculty, and staff who review student’s academic record and all violations and may recommend to the Provost an administrative sanction up to and including dismissal from the university.
What is the Academic Integrity Panel?
https://www.nwmissouri.edu/policies/academics/Academic-Integrity.pdf
Northwest students will successfully locate, retrieve, organize, store, synthesize, and annotate various forms of information.
What is Managing Information?
The altering of a score, grade, or official academic university record or forging the signature of an instructor or other student.
What is Forgery?
Discerning the most important ideas in a text, while ignoring irrelevant information, and integrating the central ideas in a meaningful way.
Sanctions related to a specific course and at the discretion of the individual faculty member. The sanction will be based on the severity of the violation and may range from repeating the educational activity to a failing grade for the course.
What are course-level sanctions?
https://www.nwmissouri.edu/policies/academics/Academic-Integrity.pdf
Northwest students will understand the formation and context of values.
What is valuing?
Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to violate a provision of the institutional code of academic integrity.
What is Facilitating academic dishonesty?
(1) knowingly obtaining unauthorized aid or information
(2) knowingly giving unauthorized aid or information
(3) committing plagiarism from written, electronic, or internet sources
(4) misrepresenting facts or data
(5) offering bribes
(6) using library resources unethically
(7) using computer resources unethically
(8) knowingly assisting in any of the above practices.
What are the 8 areas of academic behavior that violate the NW Code of Academic Integrity?
https://www.nwmissouri.edu/policies/academics/Academic-Integrity.pdf