Academic Integrity

1.      What did you learn about plagiarism? 

2.      What is your definition of academic integrity?

3.      What is your definition of Intellectual Property?

4.       What did you learn about Creative Commons?

5.       What are open access journals?

1. I learned that even carelessness can be considered plagiarism. In the past I thought that it was a direct attempt to pass off other work as your own. You could be so reckless in your writing that it can go beyond academic dishonesty and become something more serious.

2. Academic integrity to me is conducting yourself in a way that gives other people’s work and idea credit when due. You can use other people’s ideas to aid in your endeavors but you cannot claim them as your own. Even failure to tell others that the idea came from another person is dishonest.

3. I define intellectual property as any original content that is produced by and individual. This could be a physical research paper of digital media that would not have existed without that person.

4. Creative commons allows authors to say in advance how and when their content can be used, rather than needs written permission to use copy written material such is the case for traditional copyrights.

5. Open access journals are peer reviewed journals that are free to access and use in research and are usually free of any copyright and licensing restrictions.