Academic Integrity Quiz Question 1:  [1 mark] What does Academic Integrity mean? 1. That you have adopted standards that guide your academic work 2. That you will earn your degree with honest effort, and it will be a true accomplishment reflecting years of hard work and genuine learning 3. That you have developed successful academic skills and learned to credit the author of any ideas you quote, paraphrase, or use as a source of information 4. All of the above Question 2:  [1 mark] Which of the following does not show proper use of an idea from another source in your writing? 1. Providing your readers with information they need to find out more about your source 2. Using a signal phrase to tell the reader that you are about to use someone else's idea 3. Using someone else's ideas as if they were your own 4. Demonstrating that you are familiar with what's been written about your subject and who has written it Question 3:  [1 mark] If you are not sure whether a particular course of action might result in academic misconduct, you are likely to be excused because you did not know what to do in that situation. True   False   Question 4:  [1 mark] What are the key points of York's Senate Policy on Academic Honesty? 1. Explains why academic honesty is a fundamental value that is important for all students to maintain and observes that a breach of academic honesty is considered one of the most serious offenses at York 2. Defines the types of conduct that are considered to be academic offenses, including plagiarism, cheating, impersonation, and other forms of academic misconduct 3. Outlines the procedures for dealing with students who are accused of academic dishonesty and the penalties that can be applied to those found guilty 4. All of the above Question 5:  [1 mark] If a student didn't know about or understand York's policies on academic honesty and committed an academic offense, she would not receive as serious a penalty as if she did know about the Senate Policy. True   False   Question 6:  [0.25 mark for each correct match] From the list below, please indicate which items are academic offenses, and which are useful writing strategies that can help you to avoid academic offenses. 1. Copying Choose one Academic offense Useful writing strategy 2. Paraphrasing with acknowledgement Choose one Academic offense Useful writing strategy 3. Using signal phrases Choose one Academic offense Useful writing strategy 4. Using citations Choose one Academic offense Useful writing strategy   Question 7:  [0.2 mark for each correct match] Please match the terms below with their definitions. 1. Academic Integrity Choose one Representing someone else's ideas or work as your own. Brief text that shows the original source of a borrowed idea. The quality of intellectual honesty in academic work. Text to indicate that what follows came from another source. Quoting in whole or in part without acknowledgement. 2. Plagiarism Choose one Representing someone else's ideas or work as your own. Brief text that shows the original source of a borrowed idea. The quality of intellectual honesty in academic work. Text to indicate that what follows came from another source. Quoting in whole or in part without acknowledgement. 3. Signal phrase Choose one Representing someone else's ideas or work as your own. Brief text that shows the original source of a borrowed idea. The quality of intellectual honesty in academic work. Text to indicate that what follows came from another source. Quoting in whole or in part without acknowledgement. 4. Copying Choose one Representing someone else's ideas or work as your own. Brief text that shows the original source of a borrowed idea. The quality of intellectual honesty in academic work. Text to indicate that what follows came from another source. Quoting in whole or in part without acknowledgement. 5. Citation Choose one Representing someone else's ideas or work as your own. Brief text that shows the original source of a borrowed idea. The quality of intellectual honesty in academic work. Text to indicate that what follows came from another source. Quoting in whole or in part without acknowledgement.   Question 8:  [1 mark] Which of the following would not be considered a breach of York's Senate Policy on Academic Honesty? 1. Submitting the work you did for one class to a second class without that instructor's knowledge 2. Quoting a sentence from the Internet with proper citation 3. Having someone else write an exam for you 4. Copying a friend's computer program Question 9:  [0.25 mark for each correct match] From the list below, please indicate which items require a citation in your writing, and which do not. 1. A table or graph produced by someone else Choose one Requires citation Does not require citation 2. A summary of someone's spoken words Choose one Requires citation Does not require citation 3. An idea, experience or conclusion you have about a topic Choose one Requires citation Does not require citation 4. An idea that someone else in your group came up with as part of a collaborative project Choose one Requires citation Does not require citation   Question 10:  [1 mark] Which of the following (fictitious) examples does not display academic integrity? 1. The Millstone Fire put eighty-seven people out of their homes. 2. According to Erin Lam (2001), fish swim much farther in clean water (28). 3. "Happiness and chocolate are interdependent" (Plat, 1956). 4. Dag Feruzal (1999) writes, "It's only in spring ... that you find the best snowdrops" (187).