Perils and Pitfalls
The Scope of Academic Integrity
The scope of academic integrity includes, but is not limited to the following offences:
- Altering test answers
- Cellphone in your pocket during an exam
- Crediting sources
- Failing to appropriately cite information
- Forgery of a death certificate
- Forgery of a medical certificate
- Having a friend write a test
- Hidden course notes
- Improperly cited sources
- Posting work online
- Resubmitting a paper
- Submitting a friend’s old assignment
- Submitting a purchased essay
- Submitting shared work
- Submitting someone else’s work as your own
- Unreferenced quotes and passages
- Unreferenced sources