Academic Integrity

Welcome students, parents and teachers to your one stop Academic Integrity shop. This blog has been created to allow / help the Asker International community to understand the importance / necessity of Academic Integrity. This blog aims to act as a resource to help students / parents  and teachers to be aware of all of the keywords below related to Academic Integrity. 

We introduced Academic Integrity by firstly having an assembly dedicated to Academic Integrity. MYP teachers acted out many scenarios related to Academic Integrity which demonstrated to the students the right / wrong way of approaching particular situations. The skits proved highly useful while coming across in a humorous manner.

Students then had an entire week dedicated to Academic Integrity. Every teacher in the MYP department taught a variety of lessons dedicated to Academic Integrity. These were some of the following topics covered.

• Copyright
• How to reference Harvard
• Famous Quotations
• What is Academic Integrity and why does it matter
• How to paraphrase
• Consequences for not following guidelines
• Moving forward as a school
• How to write a Bibliography Harvard 
• Parents How to help  your child at home.

Academic Integrity Week proudly displayed in the MYP corridor.

Students came up with their own Academic Integrity Guidelines that they need to abide by. That way students can take ownership. 

We must always set the standard for students so its also imperative that teachers / parents also abide by their own Academic Integrity guidelines.

Want to know how to reference your work? 

Here is a slide show showing all the different forms of referencing created by Mr Brent.

Need to write a Bibliography?

Look no further. This is a step by step guide on how to write a Bibliography. Thank you Miss Karoline for creating such a wonderful resource.

What is Copyright?

Thank you Miss Anya for creating such a valuable resource.

                        Need to know how to Paraphrase?

Paraphrase is...

• your own version of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form.
• one legitimate way to borrow from a source. Accurate documentation is necessary
• a more detailed restatement than a summary, which focuses concisely on a single main idea.

Paraphrasing is a valuable skill because...

• it is better than quoting information.
• it helps you control the temptation to quote too much.
• the mental process required for successful paraphrasing helps you to grasp the full meaning of the original.

6 Steps to Effective Paraphrasing

1. Reread the original text until you understand its full meaning.
2. Set the original aside, and write your paraphrase on a note card.
3. Write down a few words below your paraphrase to remind you later how you envision using this material. At the top of the note card, write a key word or phrase to indicate the subject of your paraphrase.
4. Check your version with the original to make sure that your version accurately expresses all the essential information in a new form.
5. Use quotation marks to identify any unique term or phraseology you have borrowed exactly from the source.
6. Record the source (including the page) on your note card so that you can credit it easily if you decide to incorporate the material into your paper.

Some examples to compare

The original text:

Students frequently overuse direct quotation in taking notes, and as a result they overuse quotations in the final [research] paper. Probably only about 10% of your final manuscript should appear as directly quoted matter. Therefore, you should strive to limit the amount of exact transcribing of source materials while taking notes. Lester, James D. Writing Research Papers. 2nd ed. (1976): 46-47.

A legitimate paraphrase:

In research papers students often quote excessively, failing to keep quoted material down to a desirable level. Since the problem usually originates during note taking, it is essential to minimize the material recorded verbatim (Lester 46-47).

An acceptable summary:

Students should take just a few notes in direct quotation from sources to help minimize the amount of quoted material in a research paper (Lester 46-47).

A plagiarized version:

Students often use too many direct quotations when they take notes, resulting in too many of them in the final research paper. In fact, probably only about 10% of the final copy should consist of directly quoted material. So it is important to limit the amount of source material copied while taking notes.

Think it's safe to always use Google Translate. Guess again.

Here is a well known song. Below here is the same song directly translated using Google Translate. Do you think it's still the same song?

Bibliography


International Centre of Academic Integrity. (2012). What is so important about Academic Integrity. [Online Video]. 7 February 2017. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSfmWIlEhSg. [Accessed: 7 February 2017].

Bainbridge State College. (2010). How to avoid Plagiarism . [Online Video]. 7 February 2017. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q0NlWcTq1Y. [Accessed: 7 February 2017].

Purdue Online Writing Lab (2016). Purdue OWL: Paraphrase Exercises. [online] Available at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/1/ [Accessed 15 Dec. 2016].