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Exploring Academic Integrity - A Self-Guided Tutorial

A tutorial to guide you through the concepts of Academic Integrity and your obligations as a student.

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Exploring Academic Integrity Tutorial is adapted from an original by the Claremont Colleges Library and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Based on a design framework at www.lib.uci.edu. Content on pages 5, 14, and 15 of the Attribution and Citation section is adapted from UCI's Begin Your Research Tutorial. All other content was developed by a team of Claremont Colleges librarians.

Exploring Academic Integrity

A Student Studying in the Library, 1978.

Exploring Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is critical to success in higher education and beyond. After you finish this tutorial, you will be able to: 

  • participate fully in a scholarly conversation by engaging sources effectively and ethically
  • avoid intentional and unintentional plagiarism in research and coursework
  • articulate why academic integrity matters
  • apply the basic principles of copyright law in order to use sources legally and ethically

The tutorial begins with The Scholarly Conversation.

 

 

 

A Student Studying in the Library, 1978. Image from Digital Collections of IUPUI University Library. Copyright 2002-2004. The Trustees of Indiana University.