Academic Integrity

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What is academic integrity

The Physiopedia community of editors are part of an academic community that share knowledge. As part of this, editors need to know how to interpret and present other people's ideas and combine them to produce evidence based summaries of topics on Physiopedia. This is academic integrity.

This Academic integrity tutorial introduces key academic skills to help you develop as an independent learner and critical thinker.

An important part of academic integrity is making sure to avoid plagiarism by correctly acknowledging the work of others.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else’s work (e.g. text or images), in whole or in part, as your own.

Plagiarism.org suggest that all of the following are considered plagiarism:

• turning in someone else's work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)

Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source is usually enough to prevent plagiarism. See the referencing article for more information on how to cite sources properly.