1 Module 10 Exercise Matakuliah: G1112, Scientific Writing I Tahun: 2006 Versi: v 1.0 rev 1

2 Exercise Exercise: Test Your Knowledge on Academic Dishonesty 1.Sally is writing a term-paper for her class. She asks Bill to proofread the paper for her. Is Sally academically dishonest? 2.Matthew takes notes on many different books while writing his term paper, but does not note the sources as he is taking the notes. When he is writing the paper he draws on some of his notes, but forgets what is his own thought and what is borrowed; unintentionally he quotes some other sources without attribution and his instructor notices this. Will the fact that his action is unintentional make this offense less serious? 3.Dr. Rodgers gives students a list of questions and tells them that some of the questions will be on the final examinations. Several students study together and help each other formulate answer to the questions. Are they being academically dishonest? 4.Carlos is given a class project to interview ten people to survey their feelings about a particular topic. After getting the same response from the first five people, he reports that all ten people gave the same response. Is this academically dishonest?

3 5.On the first day of of classes you are happy to discover the assigned essay is on a topic you wrote a paper on last term. You print off a new copy and hand it in on the due date with a new cover page. Is this considered dishonest? 6.You are permitted to leave the exam room to go to the washroom. Your cell phone rings and you answer it. When you go to hand in your completed exam, the invigilator asks you to wait until the remaining students leave to speak to you. Could you be charged with cheating? 7.You are to include seven references in your essay assignment. You run out of time and add two articles to your bibliography that you did not use to write your paper. Is this considered dishonest? 8.Your roommate asks to review the paper you wrote last year because she is taking the same course this term. She says she wanted it only as a guideline to help her get started. You see her finished paper a few days later and notice she copied large sections from your paper. Could you be changed with dishonesty if the professor remembers your paper?

4 9.You are stumped on an assignment. While working in a computer lab on campus, you notice some of your classmates discussing the same assignment behind you. You join them and work through the assignment together while one student types in the information on his computer. You each copy and paste the assignment onto your own disks and print off copies of the assignment to hand in to the instructor. Could this collaboration be called into question? 10.You have been working on a major class project when you find solution related material on a university computer network. The solution is for the problem as assigned in the course during a previous semester, but it would form a good basis for solving the problem you are working on. Is it wise to copy the solution and use it?

5 9.It is late at night and your paper is due at 9:00 am the next day. You used a lot of material from a couple of books, but you didn't quote anything and, therefore, you didn't include any footnotes. Is this plagiarism or just sloppy work? 10.You have had a tough semester and are having trouble focusing on a term paper you must write. You have acquired "research material," a paper from the World Wide Web on your topic, that will get you started with information and organization. With all the other pressures, it seems tempting to make a few minor changes and turn the paper in. Should you?

6 Assignment; Do the exercise in: