What Is Academic Integrity?

Academic Integrity is an impressive-sounding word. The word can refer to a broad spectrum of actions, most of the time we use it to mean “don’t plagiarize,” or don’t pass off other’s ideas and information as your own. In those words, acknowledge the specific information that you get from sources, whether those sources are online or printed articles or books, interviews, online discussions, information from your sources’ ideas and information at all times. Academic integrity involves not only acknowledging your sources, but also creating your own ideas. Webster's dictionary defines integrity as "uncompromising adherence (meaning that one would always choose the “right” path, regardless of what seems to be more appealing) to a code of moral,