Academic (Dis)Honesty
You are responsible for being familiar with relevant
SFU policies
 S 10.01 Code of Academic Integrity and Good
Conduct
 S 10.02 Principles and Procedures of Student
Discipline
 All SFU Policies = http://www.sfu.ca/policies/
 Other resources: Library learning commons,
SCAISLE newsletters
Forms of Academic Dishonesty
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submitting the same or similar work for
different courses
cheating on tests or exams
misrepresenting your sources by (for example)
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quoting incorrectly
providing incorrect documentation, e.g. giving the
wrong page number
making incorrect claims, e.g. saying a source says
one thing when it really says the opposite or
something else
plagiarism
Action against academic dishonesty
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Despite repeated warnings some students at
SFU continue to violate the Code of Academic
Honesty.
All violations are subject to penalties.
Academic Dishonesty Report (ADR) creates a
centralized record of misconduct.
In Hist. 439, violations of academic honesty
will be documented in an ADR. Assignments
that demonstrate academic dishonesty risk
being penalized with a grade of F.
Plagiarism
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Definition: the unacknowledged or the
inadequately acknowledged use of the ideas
and / or words of another source.
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Plagiarism is plagiarism whether you intend it
or not.
Manifestations of plagiarism
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a specific fact or concept with which you were
unfamiliar, and that you cannot expect your readers to
know, for which you do not supply your source of
information, e.g. by not giving the author, title, and
page number in a footnote
a suppressed quotation, i.e. words taken from a
source that do not appear in quotation marks…even if
you supply your source, e.g. by giving the author,
title, and page number in a footnote
How to avoid plagiarism
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Create a bibliographical document in which you list
every source (journal article, encyclopedia article, book,
web site, etc.) that you consult during your research.
Take careful and precise notes during your research by
 double-checking everything you copy from a source
 putting everything you copy directly from a source in
quotation marks
 keying page numbers from sources to specific facts,
summaries in your own words, and copied text
 double-checking all page numbers
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Follow all requirements for the essay as stated in
the syllabus, including 12-point font, stapled
pages, pagination, correct footnote and
bibliographic form.
Provide a direct answer to the question. The
answer is your argument or thesis statement. You
must devote your essay to proving it.
Support your argument by taking compelling
evidence from your sources. You do this through
an analysis of relevant passages in these sources.
Do not be a disciple of Jean Jacques Rousseau:
“Commençons donc par écarter tout les faits.”
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Your sources are sacred. Quote accurately.
Do not change a single word. Adapt your
prose to a quotation, not the other way around.
Do not misrepresent your source. Do not
impose a meaning on it that it clearly does not
have.
Introduce quotations. Do not simply plop
down a quotation out of the blue without
identifying the speaker or indicating the
relevance of the quotation.
Write for your reader, not for yourself. If your
reader has to guess your meaning, you have
not been successful in conveying it.