Academic Misconduct in United States
Academic Misconduct
Overview of Academic Misconduct in relation to cyber crime: [1] A prevalent way in which academic misconduct takes place is when students or another author, such as a teacher or school administrator, does not properly cite the use of text or an image from another author’s work. Using the exact words of someone else’s text without adding quotation marks and an in-text citation to show ownership is copyright infringement as well as being plagiarism. Paraphrasing (i.e., expressing others’ ideas in one’s own words) while not giving an author credit for his or her original ideas with an in-text citation also constitutes plagiarism and copyright infringement. Changing a few words around in a sentence or paragraph is not acceptable paraphrasing. Instead, an author who uses written ideas of other people must do so by completely rewriting the material in his or her own words. When someone does not properly cite another person’s work by using quotation marks when quoting word-for-word passages or when rewriting ideas not of their own original thinking, readers may (and should) assume the work is of that person. If it is not actually his original work, it is plagiarism, a form of stealing (RIT Libraries, 2003).
Resources
Notes and References
- By Marianne Buehler
See Also
- Types of Cybercrime
- Cybercriminal
Further Reading
Buehler, M. (2007, March). Turnitin: Friend, not foe. Reporter Magazine, 56(23), 13; RIT Libraries. (2003). Copyright & plagiarism tutorials. Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Web site: http://wally.rit.edu/instruction/dl//cptutorial/; Roig, M. (n.d.). Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing. St. John Fisher Web site: http:// facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/plagiarism/Academic%20self%20plagiarism.html.
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