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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY
College of Communications
Arkansas State University
1. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
a. Academic integrity calls
for students to do their own work and not to claim as their work anything
someone else has done. Intellectual growth calls for doing one's own work; so
does academic honesty.
b. Infringement of academic integrity includes
offering someone else's work as your own (see Plagiarism), buying term papers
and cheating (see below). Specific penalties may result.
2. PLAGIARISM
a. Plagiarism is giving the
impression in an assigned paper that someone else's thoughts, ideas and/or
words are your own.
b. To avoid plagiarism, give written credit and
acknowledgment to the source of the thought, idea and/or words, whether you
have used direct quotation, paraphrasing or just a reference to a general
idea.
c. If you directly quote works written by someone
else (i.e., use some or all of the exact words of the author), enclose the
quotation in quotation marks and provide a footnote or endnote. In case of
news articles, enclose quotes in quotation marks and attribute them.
d. No term paper, book report, project or class
assignment written for credit in one class may be used for credit in another
class without the knowledge and permission of all professors concerned.
e. The research, as well as the complete written
paper, must be the work of the person seeking academic credit for the course.
3. Faculty members may respond to a case
of plagiarism in any of the following ways
a. Return the paper for
rewriting; the grade may be reduced.
b. Give a failing grade on the
paper--"F" if a letter grade is used or zero if numerical grading is
used.
c. Give the student a failing grade in the
course.
d. Recommend
sanctions, including disciplinary expulsion from the University. (See the
current edition of the Student Handbook for procedural details.)
4. TEST CHEATING
may consist of the following:
a. Having access to exam
questions beforehand.
b. Having access to course information during an
exam period.
c. Observing another person's test during the
exam period.
5. Faculty members may:
a. Seize the test of the
offending student; or
b. Allow the testing to progress without
interruption, informing the offending student at the end of the period about
the offense.
c. Inform the student within a reasonable length
of time about the offense and its consequences.
6. Faculty members may respond to a case
of cheating in any of the following ways
a. Give a failing grade on the
exam--"F" or zero.
b. Give a failing grade in the course.
c. Refer the matter for disciplinary action to
the Office of Student Affairs.
7. SCOPE:
These policies cover all classes in the College of Communications.
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