8.0 Introduction
Learning Objectives
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
- Define academic integrity and common forms of academic dishonesty
- Identify common scenarios that can lead to academic dishonesty, and possible consequences
- Identify strategies for avoiding plagiarism
- Outline the consequences of breach of Academic Integrity procedure at Fanshawe College
- Recall Fanshawe’s Academic Integrity policy and the Academic Offence process,
- Identify the actions and behaviours that are considered to be Academic Offences, and
- Determine how to avoid Academic Offences so that you can achieve and maintain Academic Integrity during your time as a student at Fanshawe College.
- Recall how in-text citations are used in conjunction with references to give credit for work borrowed and used in assignments.
- Identify the APA formatting features used in citing and referencing and where to look them up.
- Determine how to apply the rules of citing and referencing in APA format to work completed for submission.
“I would prefer even to fail with honour than win by cheating.”
Sophocles
“2.4 Understanding Academic Honesty and APA Citations” from Fundamentals for Success in College by Priti Parikh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
