{"id":35492,"date":"2019-05-21T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?page_id=35492"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:22:09","slug":"resources-for-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/academic-conduct-code\/resources-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS Academic Conduct Resources for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/academic-conduct-code\/\">Boston University Academic Conduct Code<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/cas-academic-conduct-record-request-form\/\">Academic Conduct Record Request Form<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please make sure to read and reference the BU Academic Conduct Code throughout your time as an undergraduate student.\u00a0 While it is your responsibility to understand and follow the Code, there are many resources on campus to help address any questions or concerns that might arise around academic integrity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Academic Integrity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a moral code that is followed in academia so that knowledge is shared honestly and with proper credit to the original source of information.\u00a0 Academic integrity upholds the value of an academic degree, in which every individual student worked hard to earn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intentional or not, plagiarism is plagiarism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In most cases, students do not plan to violate the Code.\u00a0 Regardless, any violation of the Code is considered dishonest, and threatens the academic integrity of the course and the University by potentially giving a student an advantage over other students in the class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Ways to Violate the Code without Realizing It:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>incorrect (or absent) citations<\/li>\n<li>allowing a friend to use your problem set, paper, or other assignment as a study guide<\/li>\n<li>uploading class assignments, notes, exams, lab reports, papers, or any other graded component of a course to public internet sites, such as Course Hero<\/li>\n<li>working on an assignment with a classmate without direct permission from the instructor, or without indicating collaboration on the assignment<\/li>\n<li>using the same assignment, such as a paper, for more than one class without permission from both instructors<\/li>\n<li>sharing a lecture clicker with a classmate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tips for Following the Code:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Read the Code, know the Code, understand the Code<\/em>.\u00a0 If you ever find yourself in a situation when a peer is asking you for something that would violate the Code (perhaps unintentionally), you should feel confident telling them no and explaining why.<\/li>\n<li><em>When in doubt, ask<\/em>.\u00a0 If you are not sure what the boundaries of an assignment are, ask your instructor.<\/li>\n<li><em>Desperate times DO NOT call for desperate measures<\/em>.\u00a0 Many times, students violate the Code out of desperation \u2013 it\u2019s 4am and a paper is due in 3 hours so they take shortcuts without considering the consequences.\u00a0 In these situations, remind yourself that a poor grade is better than being dishonest in your work and going through the process of an academic conduct violation.\u00a0 What should you do instead?\u00a0 Contact your professor, preferably several days before the due date \u2013 perhaps they are willing to give you an extension.\u00a0 If not, do the best you can, and work with your academic advisor to see if there is another underlying obstacle that needs to be addressed, such as poor time management, or having too heavy a course load.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A Note About Course Hero, and Other Similar Websites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that posting your work on internet sites such as Course Hero is a violation of the BU Academic Conduct Code?\u00a0 Specifically, such an action violates <strong>Section III.F. Knowingly allowing another student to represent your work as his or her own<\/strong>.\u00a0 By posting your work, you are giving another student the opportunity to be dishonest in their own course even if you do not intend for your assignments to be abused in such a way.\u00a0 If your work is found on websites such as Course Hero, you would be reported for academic misconduct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/the-academic-misconduct-process\/\"><strong>I was reported for academic misconduct.\u00a0 Now what?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University Academic Conduct Code Academic Conduct Record Request Form Please make sure to read and reference the BU Academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10877,"featured_media":0,"parent":21885,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52788,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35492\/revisions\/52788"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}