ACADEMIC HONESTY and ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Academic honesty or integrity is the maintenance of truthfulness and proper crediting of sources of ideas and expressions. Behaviors such as cheating on examinations and lab reports, or plagiarism of course papers and homework assignments violate academic integrity. Violations of academic integrity by students have the same character as violations of research integrity by scholars and research investigators
(see RESEARCH ETHICS). Other matters of academic integrity include honesty in writing letters of recommendation and in reporting institutional statistics.
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"ACADEMIC HONESTY and ACADEMIC INTEGRITY"
Online Ethics Center for Engineering
3/1/2006 8:06:55 AM
National Academy of Engineering
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