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Welcome to the Rowan University Academic Integrity Skills Workshop.

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This workshop will help you to:
describe the major types of academic misconduct
know the various academic support resources that are available at Rowan
practice recognizing and correcting various types of plagiarism.

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The university makes a lot of resources available to you to help you avoid academic integrity violations and to answer any questions you might have. 

Your obvious first step is to talk to your professor ahead of time, if you are not sure if something is "ok".

Additionally, you can always talk to other professors or your academic advisor.

Finally, Rowan has a number of other helpful resources, such as the writing center, the counceling center, and the academic success center, which can be very useful if you are finding you have trouble keeping up with your work.

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This video and slide deck summarize the detailed Academic Integrity Policy of Rowan University, which you can, and should, review in detail at the url provided.

The four major categories of academic integrity violations are academic misconduct, cheating, fabrication, and plagiarism. In the next few slides, we will review the meaning and examples of each one.

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Academic misconduct is the broadest category, and includes things like unauthorized alteration of grades, gaining access to unadministered tests, and so on. 

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Here are some examples of what would fall under the umbrella of academic misconduct.
Please pause the video and give these a read. 

Some items are bolded since they often surprise students. For example, submitting the same paper to more than one class requires permission from both instructors.

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Cheating is the next major category, generally described as misrepresenting your mastery of the material. 
Some examples include copying other people's work, using cheat sheets or other unauthorized materials on exams.
In particular note that allowing someone else to copy your work can get you in just as much trouble as being the one who is doing the copying.

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Fabrication is the deliberate use of false information with the intent to deceive. 
Examples include citing non-existent or unused sources, fabrication of experimental data or other source information, as well as providing false information to gain unauthorized access.

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Plagiarism involves misrepresenting someone else's words or ideas as your own. 

To avoid plagiarism, you must be meticulous in clearly marking the sources of your facts, quotes, or ideas. 

Since most written work tends to rely on the work of other people - in the words of Isaac Newton, "we all stand on the shoulders of giants" - avoiding plagiarism takes a lot of care and requires learning how to do it properly. 

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The next component of this workshop will invite you to go through the plagiarism tutorials developed by Indiana University of Bloomington, and after the tutorials to prove your mastery of the material by passing a certification test.

These links are also available on the workshop website. Follow the next steps on the website to complete this workshop.

After you pass the test, you will be provided with a digital certificate, which should be submitted to the Academic Integrity Committee for validation.

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Thank you for your attention, and good luck on the test!