- Under Course Home, review the resources on the Academic Skills Resources page. Which of those resources relate to where you think you need to improve your academic skills? Focus on those resources.
- Consider whichskills develop over the next 4 weeks.
- Create 3goals to develop your graduate level skills. Describe how you will meet each goal.Tip:Makegoals Specific, Measureable, Acheiveable, Relevant, and Timely. Identifyspecificacademic skill support resources at Waldento plan to use in your skill development.
1 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY STUDENT TUTORIAL 2017 Academic Integrity Student Tutorial Title Walden University Academic Integrity Student Module Welcome to this self-paced tutorial on Academic Integrity. This tutorial will focus on Walden’s academic integrity policies, SafeAssign, and academic integrity inquiries. Click BEGIN to get started. Audio Test This training contains audio. Please click on the headphones to test the audio and adjust your settings accordingly. Use the Next and Previous buttons to navigate throughout the slides. On most slides, you will not be able to use the Next button until you have viewed all information on the slide or the slide completes. Slide notes and a glossary can be accessed on the left panel. An audio transcript is located in the Resources tab in the upper right hand corner of the player. Click Next when you are ready to continue. Registration In order to mark your completion of this training, please register your full name in the Name box and today’s date in the Date box. After you have entered your information, click the Register button to continue. Learning Objectives Welcome to this self-paced tutorial on Academic Integrity. We will examine Walden’s definitions, expectations, tools, policies, and procedures for ensuring the highest level of academic integrity in all Walden scholarship. We will discuss types of academic integrity violations, such as plagiarism and cheating, and we will walk you through using the plagiarism prevention software tool, Safe Assign. In this course, you will learn: 2 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY STUDENT TUTORIAL 2017 1. How to recognize plagiarism 2. How to write to avoid plagiarism 3. How to submit an assignment and draft through SafeAssign 4. How to interpret a SafeAssign originality report 5. The Academic Integrity reporting process We hope you find this tutorial useful and welcome your feedback. Click Next to continue. Menu This course contains the following three topics: Academic Integrity and Plagiarism, SafeAssign, and Academic Integrity Policies and Inquiry Process. After you have completed all three sections of this module, you will be presented with an assessment to pass in order to complete this training. Click on a topic to continue. Academic Integrity and Plagiarism In this part of the tutorial we will define academic integrity and how to write to avoid plagiarism. Click LEARN MORE to continue. Fundamental Values In your role as student, scholar and researcher, pursuing your degree is both a privilege and a responsibility. At Walden, we expect the highest level of personal responsibility and accountability of our students, faculty and staff. As a member of the International Center for Academic Integrity, Walden subscribes to their definition of academic integrity as “a commitment, even in the face of adversity, to six fundamental values…”. Click on the columns to reveal the six fundamental values: “Honesty, Trust, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility, and Courage.” Click on the International Center for Academic Integrity link if you are interested in learning more about this organization. Click Next to continue. 3 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY STUDENT TUTORIAL 2017 Fundamental Values Our policies uphold these values by promoting original work and proper citation while prohibiting others to complete your work, providing false information, altering documents, cheating, plagiarism and even prohibitions on coursework exceptions and extensions. This tutorial will focus on how you can best equip yourself to adopt these six values in your coursework and generally as a student at Walden. Next, we will discuss the importance of developing strong writing skills, including specific skills that directly contribute to upholding academic integrity by serving as your most powerful defense against plagiarism. All students at Walden should be familiar with Walden’s Code of Conduct, which includes a section devoted to academic integrity. You can locate the Code of Conduct by visiting the Walden Catalog and selecting the Walden Handbook from the drop down bar. From there, select “Section 3: Student Expectations and Responsibilities”, then click on “Student Conduct and Responsibilities”. Click on Walden Catalog to view the catalog. Click Next to continue. Plagiarism Defined One of the most serious threats to academic integrity is plagiarism. Our experience has shown that students rarely intend to plagiarize, but instead need a stronger foundation in good writing skills and a better understanding of the standards expected at Walden, including our required use of APA formatting style and citation requirements. Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional use of writing or other works created by another person without properly acknowledging its source or attribution. Authors are most commonly at risk of plagiarizing when they fail to adequately cite the original source material from which they took words and ideas or when a citation is present but the author has failed to compose an original paraphrase or synthesis of the source material. (Walden University Code of Conduct) Click Next to continue. 4 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY STUDENT TUTORIAL 2017 Types of Plagiarism Plagiarism can be intentional and unintentional. It is not just an absence of a citation but it is an absence of an original paraphrase or synthesis of the source material even with a citation present. If you would like more information on the many different ways that instructors identify intentional and unintentional plagiarism, review the Plagiarism Spectrum created by Turnitin, a company that provides plagiarism detection software. Click on the two buttons to explore the two most common forms of plagiarism. After you have reviewed both topics, click Next to continue. Sources NOT Cited Copying another’s work without acknowledgement is when students use another’s exact words in a phrase, sentence, paragraph, or a full paper without proper citation. Let’s try an example. Look at the source material on the screen. Now look at the examples from two student papers using the author’s work. Roll your cursor over the example where the work is cited appropriately. Click the Close button after you have completed this scenario. Sources Cited Using one or more authors’ work with acknowledgement but without proper paraphrasing is the most common form of plagiarism we see, it is often unintentional and usually takes more practice to avoid. As your writing skills develop, this problem will diminish. If your citation to a source is not in direct or block quotes, the sentence(s) must be an original paraphrase or synthesis of the source material. You may have heard your instructors say “put it into your own words”. Simply changing a few words, deleting words from the original source material, or “patching” different sections of a source material together in a different sequence is not paraphrasing, it’s plagiarism. Your instructor, with the help of Safe Assign, will usually be able to recognize when simple words have been exchanged or patching has occurred. We will discuss this form in more detail later in the tutorial but for now, here are two examples to illustrate this patchwork concept. Roll your cursor over the example that you think adequately paraphrases the source material. 5 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY STUDENT TUTORIAL 2017 Click the Close button after you have completed this scenario. Reuse of Work One last note on types of plagiarism: At times, students may try and reuse work they previously submitted for another course. Our Code of Conduct does not allow this unless you have been given prior permission by your current instructor. Please ask for permission in advance if you wish to reuse work and please be advised that your request may be denied. Plagiarism Warning Signs Once your instructors are familiar with your writing style, they are able to recognize when the voice, tone, or vocabulary of a passage appears to deviate from your usual style or skill level. Instructors will call attention to these passages and may seek out a tool like Safe Assign or even Google to determine if these passages are (a) cited and referenced correctly and (b) truly original thoughts and ideas. Click on the Learn More to learn tips on how to avoid plagiarism and more about resources for strengthening your writing skills. Tips to Avoid Plagiarism Before you submit an assignment for grading, we highly recommend that you proofread your paper. Ask yourself, 1) Did you include a citation for any ideas or content that were not your own? 2) If any ideas or content that were not your own are not in direct or block quotes, did you compose an original paraphrase or synthesis before your citation? Did you, as we say “put it into your own words”? Did you avoid “patchworking” other’s thoughts, or simply change or delete a few words? Strengthening Your Writing Skills To support you in strengthening your writing skills, the Walden Writing Center has a wealth of resources and references to practice paraphrasing and citing. In addition, writing tutors are available by appointment for individualized feedback. Walden also offers writing courses, including an academic integrity writing course, for students looking for greater instruction. 6 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY STUDENT TUTORIAL 2017 Click on the Writing Center logo to visit and explore their website before proceeding. Click Next when you are ready to continue. SafeAssign The primary tool Walden uses to detect, deter, and prevent plagiarism is SafeAssign. It assists instructors and students to ensure the integrity of submitted work. Click LEARN MORE to continue. SafeAssign Intro Most, if not all of your assignments will be submitted into SafeAssign automatically when you submit your assignments for grading. The software checks your work against all the material stored in its database and on the web to see if your writing contains passages whose wording matches or is similar to previously submitted or published work. This analysis is provided in the form of an Originality Report. The SafeAssign database includes but is not limited to websites, books, journals, and previously submitted student assignments. In the following screens we will walk you through the steps for using this tool to support your