Academic integrity is bigger than citing
Integrity means you play fair even when nobody is watching. In school, it means your work really is yours, your sources are named, and your results are real.
- Before this course: Citation Practice: complex sources (course 13.11.2). You can already cite hard sources in APA 7 and MLA 9, handle missing information and audit a reference list. This course adds tools (reference managers) and judgment (integrity cases).
- The International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) names six fundamental values of academic integrity: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.
- Integrity covers more than plagiarism. It also covers making up or changing data, getting help you were not allowed, and reusing your own old work without permission.
- Your school's academic integrity policy decides what is allowed in your courses and what happens if a rule is broken. Policies differ between schools, countries and even single courses, so read yours.
- Good citation habits protect you: they show where every idea came from and let a reader check your work.
| Value | What it looks like in a real assignment |
|---|---|
| Honesty | Your data and results are what you really found |
| Trust | Readers can rely on your citations to lead to real sources |
| Fairness | You do not take credit for a classmate's or a writer's work |
| Respect | You give credit to the people whose ideas you build on |
| Responsibility | You read the rules for each assignment and ask when unsure |
| Courage | You hand in honest work even when a shortcut is tempting |
- Find your school's academic integrity policy (search your school's website or ask your teacher).
- Write down three things it says are not allowed.
- Find what it says about group work and about AI tools.
- Write down who you can ask when you are unsure (teacher, librarian, writing centre).
- Pick the one value from the table that is hardest for you, and write one sentence on why.
- Check: you can name your school's policy, where to find it, and one person to ask.
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[Host] "Academic integrity is not only about copying. It is about being someone others can trust."
[Text on screen: Honesty, Trust, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility, Courage] "The International Center for Academic Integrity names six values."
[Screen: a school policy page] "But your school's policy is the rulebook for your work. Read it."
[Host] "Not sure if something is allowed? Ask before you hand it in, not after."
Read your school's integrity policy. Write a five-line summary in your own words: what is not allowed, what is allowed with permission, and who to ask.
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I'm learning "Academic Integrity: reference managers" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Academic integrity is bigger than citing". What the lesson teaches: - Before this course: Citation Practice: complex sources (course 13.11.2). You can already cite hard sources in APA 7 and MLA 9, handle missing information and audit a reference list. This course adds tools (reference managers) and judgment (integrity cases). - The International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) names six fundamental values of academic integrity: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage. - Integrity covers more than plagiarism. It also covers making up or changing data, getting help you were not allowed, and reusing your own old work without permission. - Your school's academic integrity policy decides what is allowed in your courses and what happens if a rule is broken. Policies differ between schools, countries and even single courses, so read yours. - Good citation habits protect you: they show where every idea came from and let a reader check your work. - Value - What it looks like in a real assignment - Honesty - Your data and results are what you really found The exercise I'm working on: Read your school's integrity policy. Write a five-line summary in your own words: what is not allowed, what is allowed with permission, and who to ask. I'm stuck. Please: 1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example. 2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step. 3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Academic integrity is bigger than citing" from the course "Academic Integrity: reference managers". Here's what the lesson says: Integrity means you play fair even when nobody is watching. In school, it means your work really is yours, your sources are named, and your results are real. The activity: Read your school's integrity policy. Write a five-line summary in your own words: what is not allowed, what is allowed with permission, and who to ask. Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words. Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.
Sources
- International Center for Academic Integrity, The Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity: academicintegrity.org/resources/fundamental-values
Choosing a reference manager
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Capture sources cleanly
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Cite while you write
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Switching styles, including Chicago
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Integrity cases: what went wrong, and what should have happened
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AI tools and showing your process
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Final project
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Quiz
Name the six fundamental values of academic integrity listed by ICAI.
Honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.
Whose rules decide what is allowed in your assignment?
Your school's policy and your teacher's instructions.
What should you always do after saving a source into a reference manager?
Check every field against the source and fix errors.
Where should you fix a wrong title in a cited source?
In the reference manager's library item, then refresh the document.
What happens if you hand-edit a bibliography that the plugin made?
Your edits are overwritten at the next refresh.
Why keep a backup before using Unlink Citations?
Unlinking cannot be undone and the citations stop updating.
What are Chicago's two citation systems?
Notes and bibliography, and author-date.
Which Chicago system uses numbered footnotes or endnotes?
Notes and bibliography.
What is fabrication?
Making up data or results and reporting them.
Is a wrong year caused by a bad import automatically misconduct?
No. Honest errors are not misconduct, but you should fix them.
What is self-plagiarism?
Presenting your own earlier work as if it were new, without permission or citation.
An AI tool gives you a source. What must you do before saving it?
Find and open the real source yourself, and follow your school's AI policy.
Final exam
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