Welcome to college: opening doors

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Welcome to college opening doors

• Habit of Mind - Persist

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Activity 1

• Walking the plank.

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Contents

• Why Is Academic Integrity Important?
• Who At School Can Help You Out?

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Why is academic integrity important?

• What is academic integrity?
• A commitment to five fundamental values
  honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and
  responsibility. (The Center for Academic
  Integrity-Duke University)

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Why is academic integrity important?

• Honesty Defines the pursuit of knowledge and
  implies a search for the truth your classwork,
  papers and lab reports, and teamwork with other
  students.
• Trust Being true to your word. Mutual
  trust-between instructor and student, as well
  among students makes possible the exchange of
  ideas that is essential for learning.

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Why is academic integrity important?

• Fairness Instructors must create a fair academic
  environment where students are judged against
  clear standards and in which procedures are well
  defined.
• Respect In a respectful environment, both
  students and instructors accept and honor a wide
  range of opinions, even if the opinions are
  contrary to core beliefs.

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Why is academic integrity important?

• Responsibility You are responsible for making
  choices that will provide you with the best
  education-choices that reflect fairness and
  honesty.

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Activity 2

• Finding out the fake.
• Which of these quotes is the real one and which
  one is a copy of the real one.

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Why is academic integrity important?

• Facts of plagiarism
• According to Merriam Webster to steal and pass
  off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
  use (another's production) without crediting
  the source

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Why is academic integrity important?

• What do teachers view as plagiarism.
• Submits a paper from a Web site that sells or
  gives away research papers.
• Buys a paper from a non-Internet service.
• Hands in a paper written b a fellow students
  without instructor approval.
• Copies materials in a paper from a source without
  quotation marks or source citation.
• Paraphrases material in a paper from a source
  without proper source citation.

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Why is academic integrity important?

• Results of being caught of plagiarism
• Failing the class.
• Referred to the Office of Student Conduct.
• Go to a hearing.

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Why is academic integrity important?

• Keys to avoiding plagiarism
• Make source and content notes as you go.
• Know the difference between a quotation and a
  paraphrase.
• Use a citation even for an acceptable paraphrase.
• Focus on your own ideas and use sources as
  support.
• Understand that lifting material off the Internet
  is plagiarism.

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Why is academic integrity important?

• Effects of choosing to act with integrity
• Increased self-esteem
• You feel better about yourself and have a higher
  chance to succeed
• Acquired knowledge
• You remember information from doing a test than
  forgetting after cheating on a test.
• Effective behavioral patterns
• You act in a way with friends and family.
• Mutual respect
• You have a sense of respect and trust with a
  friend or instructor.

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Activity 3
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Who at school can help you out?
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Who at school can help you out?

• People that can help you out at school
• Instructors, Teacher Assistant, Fellow Students,
  Mentors, Academic Advisors, and many more.

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Common Reasons Why Students Dont Do Well in
School

• Sleeping Late.
• Absences.
• Partying instead of studying.
• Looking at the book instead of studying and
  learning.
• Losing books, assignments, and papers.
• Procrastinating on assignments.
• Tuning out in class.
• Taking classes out of sequences.
• Overloading with too many classes.
• Accepting too many classes out of school
  friends, clubs, religious organizations, and work
  hours.

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Common Reasons Why Students Dont Do Well in
School

• Not using time well wasting minutes/hours.
• Slow reading.
• Lack of understanding of material.
• Weak vocabulary.
• Lack of support groups baby sitters/study help.
• Family distractions sick children/bad
  relationships.
• Lack of transportation.
• Not reading assignments.
• Not willing to learn to put forth effort/hard
  work.
• Poor note-taking skills.

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Top Ten Difficulties Going from High School to
College

• I feel unprepared to be so responsible for
  myself.
• All this free time-What exactly am I supposed to
  be doing?
• I find the workload overwhelming.
• I dont know how to organize my time.
• Im not good at meeting new people. Making
  friends is difficult for me.
• I no longer have my mother and/or father to do
  some of my work for me.
• I so not like to tell people about my struggles
  in the classroom.
• I couldnt get the courses I want to take.
• I cant handle failure. What do I do if Im
  failing a course at the end of the term/
• I get too distracted-how can I focus?

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Activity 4