Academic integrity is the ethical policy or moral code of academia that emphasizes on maintenance of academic standards such as rigor and honesty in academic and research publishing. The cornerstone of all scholarly and academic work at Farmingdale State College is maintenance of academic integrity. The college has developed policies on Academic Integrity by prohibiting any academic dishonesty. Such behaviors violate the Student Code of Conduct and student that intentionally practices cheating, fraud or plagiarism faces penalties.
Academic dishonesty is a fraud action, where a student intentionally seeks to use work or effort of others to claim credit without any correct documentation or makes use of fabricated, undocumented or unauthorized information in an academic exercise (Farmingdale State College, 2013). It also includes forgery on academic documents, damaging academic work of others, intentionally impeding or even assisting others in dishonest acts.
Plagiarism is the intentional representation of ideas or words of others as own in an academic exercise. This may be in print or electronic format. Morally, this is wrong and interferes with intellectual and learning development. To avoid plagiarism, it is important for a student to have an understanding of what it is in order to avoid committing intentional or accidental plagiarism. Students have the sole responsibility of preventing such dishonesty through abstaining from behaviors that facilitate such dishonesty.
Whenever one includes wording or information of another person in a document it must be followed by an acknowledgement of the source and include citation in order to tell readers the source, otherwise one will have committed intellectual theft. The faculty members, therefore, have responsibility of establishing academic integrity standards and consequent disciplinary policies that are consistent with policies and standards of the college.
Reference
Farmingdale State College. (2013). Retrieved February 1, 2014, from Farmingdale State College
