Academic
honesty
Academic honesty requires
that the course work (drafts, reports, examinations, papers) a student presents
to an instructor honestly and accurately indicates the student's own academic
efforts.
UWS 14 is the chapter of the
"UWS 14.03 Academic Misconduct Subject to Disciplinary Action
(1) Academic misconduct is an act in which a student:
(a) seeks to claim credit for
the work or efforts of another without authorization or citation;
(b) uses unauthorized materials or fabricated data in any academic exercise;
(c) forges or falsifies academic documents or records;
(d) intentionally impedes or damages the academic work of others;
(e) engages in conduct aimed at making false representation of a student's
academic performance"
(f) assists other students in any of these acts."
Examples include but are not
limited to: cutting and pasting text from the web without quotation marks or
proper citation; paraphrasing from the web without crediting the source; using
notes or a programmable calculator in an exam when such use is not allowed;
using another person's ideas, words, or research and presenting it as one's own
by not properly crediting the originator; stealing examinations or course
materials; changing or creating data in a lab experiment; altering a transcript;
signing another person's name to an attendance sheet; hiding a book knowing
that another student needs it to prepare an assignment; collaboration that is
contrary to the stated rules of the course, or tampering with a lab experiment
or computer program of another student.
Advice and Assistance
If you are accused of misconduct, you may
have questions and concerns about the process. If so, you should feel free to
call the Office of the Dean of Students at 263-5700 or send an email to dos@bascom.wisc.edu
Some Special Points About. .
Collaboration
You should be aware that different instructors have different expectations
about working with others. If you wish to consult with or work with another
student on an assignment and you are not sure of the course rules, ask
the instructor. It is each student's responsibility to seek information
about the boundaries of appropriately working with others on assignments,
papers, experiments, or examinations. If no rules concerning working with
others have been discussed in a course , the student
must assume that working with others writing a paper, completing homework, or
taking an exam is not permitted.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism means presenting the words or ideas of others without giving credit.
You should know the principles of plagiarism and the correct rules for citing
sources. In general, if your paper implies that you are the originator of words
or ideas, they must in fact be your own.
If you use someone else's exact words, they should be
enclosed in quotation marks with the exact source listed. You may put someone
else's idea in your own words as long as you indicate whose idea it was (for
example, "As Jane Smith points out, . . .").
If you are unsure about the proper ways to give credit to sources, ask your
instructor or consult the