Unit 3-Lesson 2 Arabic

Unit 3: How to Approach your Assignment

Lesson 2: Academic Integrity

Learning Outcomes

Define plagiarism.

List the tools used to identify plagiarism by universities.

Identify types of plagiarism.

Recognize ways to avoid plagiarism.

Utilizing AI to avoid plagiarism.

Academic Integrity

Act in an honest, fair, respectful and responsible manner in your study and academic work. This means applying these values in your own work, and also when dealing with other people's work and contributions.

Recognize those who have created or developed new ideas or research

Why Academic Integrity?

When you copy someone else's work, you don't actually learn anything.

Good academic work depends on honesty, trust and respect

Fundamentals of academic integrity

Be fair

Be honest

Be respectful

Submit your own work in the assigned assessment form

Be respectful when you're with others

Be fair and acknowledge others' work

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Plagiarism

Taking someone else's thoughts and/or the way they are expressed and pretending it is your own by not giving proper recognition. This includes materials obtained from the Internet, staff and other students, published and unpublished works, as well as lecture notes, materials, design and coding.

Types of plagiarism

Intentional

Unintentional

• Forgetting to cite the source
• Forgetting to add quotation marks

• Use other people's words without citing and relying on copy and paste.
• Taking other students' work and making others do the work on your behalf

How to detect plagiarism

Plagiarism detection programs:

• Urkund
• Turnitin

Accepted plagiarism rate at LTUC 30%

How to avoid plagiarism

Add the original author in the citation within the text and in your reference list.

Tracking the sources you used in your research

Use plagiarism checker before submitting

Paraphrase or quote from your sources

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Be honest

• By submitting, you guarantee that it is your own work that has been created for a specific assessment or task.
• Submitting your work at a certain specified time, also ensures that you have not previously provided any part of the work for other research.

Paraphrasing

Using your own words to explain something from a source, doesn't mean just switching a few words from a text that has been copied and pasted. Correct paraphrasing requires: Using synonyms Changing the order of the original text Using your own method of expression

Quoting

Include other people's words and thoughts in your text just as they expressed it. When quoting, you include other people's words and thoughts in your text just as they expressed it. You can refer to this inclusion by placing quotation marks ("") around the words of the source author and providing a citation inside the text after the quotation.

Be fair

• Acknowledge words or codes by quoting and citing your sources.
• Acknowledge ideas by citing your sources, critical reading, summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, and distinguishing your ideas from those in your sources.
• Recognize results or data by citing the source when using another person's results or data.
• Do not share unauthorized material with others.

Be respectful

• Respect the work of others in your team or group.
• Don't do someone else's research.
• Don't let others do the work you're supposed to do.