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: G1112, Scientific Writing I
: 2006
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Module 10
Exercise
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Exercise
Exercise: Test Your Knowledge on Academic Dishonesty
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Sally is writing a term-paper for her class. She asks Bill to
proofread
the paper for her. Is Sally academically dishonest?
Matthew takes notes on many different books while writing his
term paper, but does not note the sources as he is taking the
notes. When he is writing the paper he draws on some of his
notes, but forgets what is his own thought and what is borrowed;
unintentionally he quotes some other sources without attribution
and his instructor notices this. Will the fact that his action is
unintentional make this offense less serious?
Dr. Rodgers gives students a list of questions and tells them that
some of the questions will be on the final examinations. Several
students study together and help each other formulate answer to
the questions. Are they being academically dishonest?
Carlos is given a class project to interview ten people to survey
their feelings about a particular topic. After getting the same
response from the first five people, he reports that all ten people
gave the same response. Is this academically dishonest?
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5. On the first day of of classes you are happy to discover the assigned
essay is on a topic you wrote a paper on last term. You print off a
new copy and hand it in on the due date with a new cover page. Is
this considered dishonest?
6. You are permitted to leave the exam room to go to the washroom.
Your cell phone rings and you answer it. When you go to hand in
your completed exam, the invigilator asks you to wait until the
remaining students leave to speak to you. Could you be charged
with cheating?
7. You are to include seven references in your essay assignment. You
run out of time and add two articles to your bibliography that you did
not use to write your paper. Is this considered dishonest?
8. Your roommate asks to review the paper you wrote last year
because she is taking the same course this term. She says she
wanted it only as a guideline to help her get started. You see her
finished paper a few days later and notice she copied large sections
from your paper. Could you be changed with dishonesty if the
professor remembers your paper?
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9. You are stumped on an assignment. While working in a
computer lab on campus, you notice some of your
classmates discussing the same assignment behind
you. You join them and work through the assignment
together while one student types in the information on
his computer. You each copy and paste the assignment
onto your own disks and print off copies of the
assignment to hand in to the instructor. Could this
collaboration be called into question?
10. You have been working on a major class project when you find
solution related material on a university computer network. The
solution is for the problem as assigned in the course during a
previous semester, but it would form a good basis for solving the
problem you are working on. Is it wise to copy the solution and use
it?
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9.
It is late at night and your paper is due at 9:00 am the
next day. You used a lot of material from a couple of
books, but you didn't quote anything and, therefore,
you didn't include any footnotes. Is this plagiarism or
just sloppy work?
10. You have had a tough semester and are having trouble
focusing on a term paper you must write. You have
acquired "research material," a paper from the World
Wide Web on your topic, that will get you started with
information and organization. With all the other
pressures, it seems tempting to make a few minor
changes and turn the paper in. Should you?
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Assignment;
Do the exercise in:
http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjects/govinfo/twain.htm
http://philosophy.tamu.edu/~gary/intro/plagiarism.index.html
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