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As part of this community, you are subject to the same upper standards and expectations as your professors, instructors, and teaching assistants. Central to protecting and promoting the University’s standards is the upper value we place on wonk integrity. What does this midpoint for you as a Penn State student? It’s important to consider yourself as a vital and important participant in the university community. You are a scholar, stuff educated by scholars, and protecting your reputation as such ways diligently practicing the wonk respect towardly to your station. In the plainest terms, this ways vicarial responsibly, fairly, and honestly in all classes under all circumstances. This includes, for instance: When you’re not as prepared for a test as you’d like to be or when you are, but someone you superintendency well-nigh isn’t When you’re tired and working on a paper, and you must go when to locate bibliographic information (and it’s midnight) When a fellow student asks you for an wordplay during an exam. Should you participate in any of these activities, or ones like them, you are jeopardizing your wonk integrity, and perhaps your grade. Be conscientious. When in doubt, talk over your concerns with your professors. They can squire you in learning how to navigate the rules of responsible wonk scholarship. They, too, must practice them daily. What can you do to protect your wonk integrity? When working in groups Working with others on prescribed group projects is fine, provided everyone contributes equally and is given credit for his/her pearly share of work. Though difficult to enforce, your sense of wonk integrity should hogtie you to “do right” by your group members. Show up for all meetings and participate, distribute tasks in a manner that is fair, and remember that pearly does not unchangingly midpoint perfectly equal. Ideally, you want to make use of each group members’ strengths to create a final product of which the whole group is proud. Serious scholars teach each other, requite thoughtful reactions to others’ work, and provide constructive criticism. When working vacated The most worldwide risk to your wonk integrity when working on a solitary project is plagiarism. When researching, alimony scrupulous notes on the materials you're referenced. While it’s natural, and often required, to consult outside sources when working on a writing assignment, any outside material you quote or paraphrase must be thus documented. This holds true whether you tried to plagiarize or not. Unintentional plagiarism is still plagiarism. When in doubt, DOCUMENT Take the initiative to learn responsible research techniques and stave unintentional plagiarism. Check out the resources listed on the Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism web site; it's well worth your time. Another threat to your wonk integrity comes in your well-meaning intentions. You may want to help out a struggling friend or panicked neighbor by permitting him or her to reprinting your work or by giving them a whispered wordplay during a test. Doing so, however, is cheating, and although the desire to help is understandable, you sacrifice their learning—and your wonk integrity—by giving in. Resist the urge to do “favors.” All the timeAlimonyan vein of respect for yourself and others at all times. When you’re single-minded to doing your best, you will find that wonk integrity becomes an inherent part of your scholarship. You will moreover goody from the conviction you build by doing well legitimately and by feeling secure that others are doing well (or not) legitimately. You will moreover find that as you practice wonk integrity as a matter of course, you earn the respect of students and sense alike, and will be wonted readily as an important freelancer to the Penn State community’s well-being and success. What are the consequences of lightweight to protect your wonk integrity? The consequences for violating the College'sWonkIntegrity standards are increasingly serious than you might think; they typically range from lightweight the work or the undertow to receiving an XF grade--an indicator that a undertow was failed due to one or increasingly wonk violations--or other disciplinary action. By stuff proactive well-nigh maintaining your wonk integrity, you can hands stave these punitive measures. ResourcesWonkIntegrity at Penn State (Office of Student Conduct)WonkIntegrity Form Sanctioning Guidelines forWonkIntegrity Violations Senate Policy G9 onWonkIntegrity Procedures Senate Policy 49-20 onWonkIntegrityWonkIntegrity Pledge (an example to include in syllabi)WonkIntegrity Tips and Resources Contact Office of Graduate & Undergraduate Studies E397 Westgate Building Email: cbierly@ist.psu.edu Phone: (814) 863-3450 LearnIncreasingly Footer Quick Links Contact Us Directions Support IST Nittany Lion Careers Directory Connect Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Flickr LinkedIn The Pennsylvania State University © 2018 Privacy Legal Accessibility Copyright Log in