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Academic Honesty |
The Dean's Office requests the following on all syllabi:
Academic
dishonesty as defined by the UH Student Conduct Code
(www.hawaii.edu/student/conduct) may lead to redoing the assignment, receiving
a failing or reduced grade for the course or being referred to the
UH Dean of Students for University disciplinary action. The University of
Hawaii defines academic dishonesty as follows:
Because UHM is an academic community with high
professional standards, its teaching, research, and service purposes are
seriously disrupted and subverted by academic dishonesty. Such dishonesty
includes cheating and plagiarism as defined below. Ignorance of these definitions will not provide an excuse
for acts of academic dishonesty.
1.
Cheating
includes but is not limited to giving or receiving unauthorized assistance
during an examination; obtaining unauthorized information about an examination before it is
given;
2. Submitting
another's work as one's own;
3. Using
prohibited sources of information during an examination; fabricating or
falsifying data in experiments and other research; altering the record of any
grade; altering answers after an examination has been submitted; falsifying any
official University record; or misrepresenting of facts in order to obtain
exemptions from course requirements.
4. Plagiarism
includes but is not limited to submitting, in fulfillment of an academic
requirement, any work that has been copied in whole or in part from another
individual's work without attributing that borrowed portion to the individual; neglecting to
identify as a quotation another's idea and particular phrasing that was not
assimilated into the student's language and style or paraphrasing a passage so
that the reader is misled as to the source; submitting the same written or
oral or artistic material in more than one course without obtaining
authorization from the instructors involved; or "drylabbing,"
which includes obtaining and using experimental data and laboratory write-ups
from other sections of a course or from previous terms.
My addition relative to homework:
One problem we have been having in the
Shidler College is students not doing homework on their own. Homework is a
critical activity for learning. It is where you apply what you learn and really learn the material. Depending too much on
others ruins its value. It also gets you in trouble academically.
Here’s what you need to do. Do all of
the homework on your own. Note “on your own.” When you get to the point where
you can’t figure out a few questions, keep working on your own. Only
when you have spent a lot of time trying to do it on your own should you
get together with other students.
Obviously, if I get two homework
assignments that appear to be largely copies of each other, that is cheating,
and it will result in expulsion from the course with a letter grade of F.
Period.
However, if I see two answers to
difficult questions that are pretty much the same word for word, that is also
cheating. If you understand the answer, you should express it in your own
words.
In general, I will be extremely
unhappy if your answers make it obvious that you worked in a group for much of
the homework.