8.4 Knowledge Check
Reflective Practice
What can you do to maintain academic integrity during your training at Fanshawe?
What is “plagiarism” and what strategies can you use to avoid an academic offence?
Applying Your Knowledge
Glossary
Holding oneself and others accountable for performing academic work both honestly and ethically.
A referencing format created by the American Psychological Association.
Taking information or knowledge from someone else and presenting it as one's own work. Can take the form of looking over someone's shoulder during an exam, or any forbidden sharing of information between students regarding an exam or exercise.
Refers to telling readers where the information in your work originated.
Providing false information to an instructor concerning an academic assignment.
The falsification of data, information, or citations in an academic assignment.
Defined in the 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary, is the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work" (Emory University, 2022, para. 4)
Refers to holding one's self and others accountable for performing ‘professional’ work, both honestly and ethically, in the workplace in the industry of your choice.
A formal system of indicating where ideas and information originated to properly credit the author and show how your argument relates to the big picture.
