Academic Integrity

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Academic Integrity

• Cite Your Sources with Success!

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What is Academic Integrity?

• Being fair and honest
• Following rules
• Student Code in ZU Student handbook
• Documenting your research
• Citing is the process researchers use to document
  information used in research.
• Citing provides complete and accurate references
• No illegal file sharing

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What is a citation?

• A citation is made of parts.
• Each part shows specific information about the
  source of information.
• Example
• Walters, T., Quinn, S. R. Walters, L. M. (2005)
  Media life among Gen Zeds. International Journal
  of Cultural Studies, 8 (1), 63-83. Retrieved
  August 23, 2005, from PsycINFO database.

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Why do we cite?

• To find the information cited
• To give credit to the originator
• To avoid plagiarism

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What is a Style Guide?

• Rules for Citing
• APA or MLA

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What is Plagiarism?

• "to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of
  another) as ones own without crediting the
  source."  Websters Dictionary

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How to Avoid Plagiarism

• Cite your sources
• Paraphrase, summarize
• Use YOUR OWN words

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Lets Practice Citing

• In groups of 2 or 3
• Look at 3 Easy Steps to Creating Citations
• Review the examples
• Create a citation on the Citation Worksheet
• For an article, and for a book
• In a few minutes we will check your work