Academic Integrity Resources from UC Davis

Student Judicial Affairs website 
Integrity:  an Essential Piece of the Puzzle     
The Student Disciplinary System
 
The Code of Academic Conduct    
Reporting Academic Misconduct  
(pdf file)
Academic Misconduct Report Form 
Confronting In-Progress Cheating   (pdf file)
Tips to Prevent Cheating    (pdf file)
Avoiding Plagiarism:  Mastering the Art of Scholarship    (pdf file)
Unauthorized Collaboration:  What Students Need to Know   (pdf file)

To access SJA publications in portable document format (pdf) & print them from the web, go to the SJA “Publications” page and select the name of the publication you want to print.

Other Academic Integrity Resources

The Center for Academic Integrity website    
Center for Academic Integrity – Research   
The Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity
A letter to my Students, Bill Taylor, Professor of Political Science, Oakton Community College, IL

Article/Books on Academic Integrity and Student Discipline Processes

Hinman, Lawrence M., How to Fight College Cheating, Washington Post Friday, September 3, 2004; Page A19, 

McCabe, D. L. (Interview), New research on academic integrity:  The success of "modified" honor codes,Synfax Weekly Report (SWR 00.17, p. 975), May 15, 2000

McCabe, D. L., Trevino, L.K., and Butterfield, K.D., Cheating in Academic Institutions:  A Decade of Research, Ethics & Behavior 2001.     (pdf file)   

Mercer, W. L., Ed., Critical Issues in Judicial Affairs: Current Trends, " Issues in Academic Integrity," Cole, S. and McCabe, D. and "Processes for Resolving Student Disciplinary Matters," Wilson, J.M., Jossey-Bass Publishers (1996)

Other Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Resources

Council of Writing Program Administrators website Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism:  The WPA Statement on Best Practices,January, 2003,

University of Alberta Libraries website Detecting Plagiarism

Online Writing Lab at Purdue website Avoiding Plagiarism         

Plagiarism Resource Site Professor Louis Bloomfield, University of Virginia

Georgetown University website What is Plagiarism

The Center for Academic Integrity website

Center for Academic Integrity – Research

The Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity

A letter to my students, Bill Taylor, Professor of Political Science, Oakton Community College, IL (pdf)

Free Software to Detect Plagiarism

Wcopyfind (compares papers downloaded to program)

Pairwise (available soon -- compares papers with Internet and with papers downloaded to program)

Articles on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Hauptman, Robert, Dishonesty in the Academy  Academe, December 31, 2003,

Hinman, Lawrence M., "How to Fight College Cheating Washington Post Friday, September 3, 2004; Page A19, 

McCabe, D. L. (Interview), New research on academic integrity:  The success of "modified" honor codes Synfax Weekly Report (SWR 00.17, p. 975), May 15, 2000

McCabe, D. L., Trevino, L.K., and Butterfield, K.D., Cheating in Academic Institutions:  A Decade of Research Ethics & Behavior 2001 (pdf)

Rimer, Sara, A Campus Fad That's Being Copied:  Internet Plagiarism, The New York Times, September 3, 2003

Footnotes

1(slide 3) "Internet plagiarism is a growing concern on all campuses as students struggle to understand what constitutes acceptable use of the Internet. In the absence of clear direction from faculty, most students have concluded that 'cut & paste' plagiarism - using a sentence or two (or more) from different sources on the Internet and weaving this information together into a paper without appropriate citation - is not a serious issue. While 10% of students admitted to engaging in such behavior in 1999, this rose to 41% in a 2001 survey with the majority of students (68%) suggesting this was not a serious issue."   Center for Academic Integrity – Research http://www.academicintegrity.org/cai_research.asp

2  (slide 3) "A study of almost 4,500 students at 25 schools, conducted in 2000/2001, suggests cheating is also a significant problem in high school - 74% of the respondents admitted to one      or more instances of serious test cheating and 72% admitted to serious cheating on written assignments. Over half of the students admitted they have engaged in some level of plagiarism on written assignments using the Internet." Center for Academic Integrity – Research http://www.academicintegrity.org/cai_research.asp

3 (slide 4) Robert Harris, "Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers," November 17, 2004, page 1 of 8, from "VirtualSalt" http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

4 (slide 5) McCabe, D. L., Trevino, L.K., and Butterfield, K.D., "Cheating in Academic Institutions:  A Decade of Research,"Ethics & Behavior 2001 www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/ cpurrin1/plagiarism/docs/McCabe_et_al.pdf

5(slide 7)"Faculty are reluctant to take action against suspected cheaters. In a 1999 survey of over 1,000 faculty on 21 campuses, one-third of those who were aware of student cheating in their course in the last two years, did nothing to address it. Students suggest that cheating is higher in courses where it is well known that faculty members are likely to ignore cheating.." Center for Academic Integrity – Research http://www.academicintegrity.org/cai_research.asp

6 (slides 12 - 18) good resources: "Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism:  The WPA [Council of Writing Program Administrators] Statement on Best Practices," January, 2003, Council of Writing Program Administrators website, http://www.wpacouncil.org and "Detecting Plagiarism"  University of Alberta Libraries, http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/detecting/index.cfm