Academic Integrity Policies Writing Assignment

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Section A

a two-paragraph summary, in your own words, of Walden’s policy on academic integrity. Identify three types of academic integrity violations, and explain what students can do to avoid them. Make sure to review the Week 1 learning resources before responding.

Section B

Compose a three-paragraph essay in which you examine possible violations of Walden’s academic integrity policy. Study the three scenarios below, and explain in your own words whether violations of Walden’s policy occurred. Organize your paper by writing one paragraph for each scenario. You are not required to integrate sources in your paper. However, if you do use source material, please do your best to cite it properly, per APA style. You will work on developing your citation skills in the coming weeks.

  • Student A was told by his instructor that half of his essay matched a paper previously submitted in a Walden course. Did the student violate Walden’s academic integrity policy?
  • Student B used plagiarism-detection software called SafeAssign to check for accidental plagiarism. The student found a 30% match with source material. Did the student violate Walden’s academic integrity policy?
  • Student C was told by her instructor that 20% of her paper contained word-for-word source language that included citations but not quotation marks. Did the student violate Walden’s academic integrity policy?

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Running head: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICIES

Academic Integrity Policies
Student’s Name
Institution
Year

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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICIES

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Academic Integrity Violations
Walden University considers academic integrity as a critical aspect in the process of their
students achieving intellectual development. The university, therefore, emphasizes honesty and
integrity among its students to ensure that none of the students gain unfair academic advantage.
The three types of academic integrity violations include wholesale copying of other people’s
work, passages or even discussions without acknowledging them in your work. This is a
prevalent form of academic integrity violation especially among lazy students who copy the
entire text of a scholar without editing the work. This eventually results in plagiarism. The
second type of academic integrity violation is the use of other people’s views, opinions and
insights without acknowledging them in your work ("Code of Conduct - Walden University Acalog ACMS™", 2019). This is also another common form of academic violation, where
students extract ...


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