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Academic integrity matters to me because improper practices can cause damage to other individuals. It can lead to misrepresentations. It can lead to the truth getting lost in the mess of things. If one is not honest, credible, accurate, and many other things with their work, then their work is meaningless. Having academic integrity matters.

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Honesty and trust are necessary for a healthy society to function, and academic dishonesty undermines those qualities. But even setting aside the far-reaching ethical concerns, the purpose of attending school is to grow my understanding of the world, and I cannot accurately assess my own growth or correctly calibrate my learning methods without maintaining academic integrity. Academic dishonesty isn't just dishonesty with the institution or one's classmates, but also with oneself about one's own abilities.

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Sharing our own experiences is vital to growing our understanding of the world around us, and it requires us to be honest about where our influences come from, respecting the contributions of those before us that helped us get to where we want to. It also helps those who see your work understand better how you developed your ideas, giving transparency to your process.

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Academic integrity is doing your own work and when referencing other authors you cite them. I find it very important to uplift the voices around me. Their information and inspiration is fuel to a flame but the fire needs to be your own.

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Academic integrity matters to me because it is such a pat on the back to turn in a completely finished piece of work that required thought, time and understanding. I have always placed a huge emphasis on learning (not simply repeating or restating) so I am the type of person that feels unfulfilled if I do something without it impacting me in any way. My parents always told me to do my best in whatever I choose to do and I know I am not doing my best if I am not actually the one completing my work. If I am not being honest about my academic integrity there is no proof or timeline to show that I am actually improving.

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Being honest makes class fair to everyone.

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To me, academic integrity means being honest about your understanding of something and submitting your own work as proof. There is nothing wrong with getting help to come to some meaningful conclusion on a subject, but at the end of the day it must be your own conclusion that you are submitting.

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Academic integrity, to me, means doing your own work and being an honest student. I'm paying UO to teach me so I want to learn the work. If I cheat, I wouldn't be getting my moneys worth.

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As an Asian American women in STEM, I am very grateful to be able to go to school. I believe academic integrity is important because you are not only honoring yourself (and your hard work), but you are considering the hard work of others and those who may not be as fortunate as you. Additionally, I strongly believe that you should always give credit to original creators. In history, there are hundreds of scientists who have taken credit for others work. For example, Rosalind Franklin, the female scientist who practically found the structure of DNA and worked on a variety of viruses did not receive credit for her contributions. Instead, those around her (who based their work on her research) received awards and recognitions.

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Academic integrity matters to me because it aligns with the core moral principles and values I adhere to in my life.

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Academic Integrity to me means using one's own critical thinking abilities to synthesize original thoughts and ideas, and properly citing and crediting those who influence your thoughts. This is very important to me because if you are not accurately conveying what has influenced your work and whose voices informed your own, you are being academically dishonest and also not true to yourself.

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Academic integrity is very important to me as a pre-medical student because ensuring that I complete my own work on time with the proper citations always increases my learning capacity. This will in turn allow me in the future to correctly recall information because I did my own work and did not try to cheat my way out of learning something.

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Academic integrity is upholding rightful intellectual ownership of ideas and standing up for oneself for ideas which are uniquely theirs. Without academic integrity, the blend of ideas of others being used without citation (or perhaps more bluntly - stolen) breeds distrust of others, of the citing author, and it hides any unique and original ideas that the citing author may have. Additionally it breeds intellectual laziness, often relying on source-texting and an inclination towards copying whole works, or large section of works, without putting in an original thought of ones' own.

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Academic integrity matters to me because of something my parents always say: "You get back what you put out." If you put in your own hard work, you will get the credit you deserve. But if you're doing things for other people, or having other people do things for you, it will come back to bite you eventually.

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Academic integrity means taking the education and work of yourself and others seriously and with respect.

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Academic integrity matters a lot to me especially because I know what it feels like to have my work taken from me. All throughout middle and high school it became clear to my peers that I was the kind of person who was happy to lend a hand on a difficult assignment, and that quickly got taken advantage of. Rather than being able to simply assist, often times my work was copied, tweaked, and submitted under another student's name. It was always very disappointing.

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Cheating in school is cheating myself out of learning, and others of success. I'm spending valuable money and time here at the U of O, and I refuse to waste it by circumventing the opportunity to learn. I got here by taking pride in my work, and failing or passing on my own merit.

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Academic integrity means to me that the work I put forward is honest. As a Christian, honesty is critically important to me and without striving for academic integrity I would be basically lying and putting forward others work as my own.

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Academic Integrity is important to me because if you take shortcuts in the classroom you will not be properly prepared for the real world.

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I think academic integrity matters because it helps you to learn self discipline and to value your time.

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Integrity as a whole has actually been of utmost importance in my life. My mother has always made an effort to teach (and show) me what integrity means, as well as the kind of energy we put into the world and ourselves when we do not act with integrity. Including a commitment to integrity in my academic life means contributing to my wellbeing and the wellbeing of the world around me!

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Academic integrity is, in a sense, freedom. It is the freedom to have free thought, inspired by but not taken from others. It allows each individual to share their findings and work in a safe way that allows for conversation regarding that topic, free from any worry of plagiarism or cheating.

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Academic integrity matters to me because as a journalist it is important I tell other people's stories as their own, and with academic integrity, I can do that.

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Academic integrity matters to me because it shows how in history and still today BIPOC, women, LGBTQIA+, work was shut out and excluded. Today we can understand the exclusion and work to not only recognize but use academic integrity every day.

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Academic integrity protects and enriches the knowledge that everyone finds, shares, and uses.

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Academic integrity is very important to me and for the future of my education. It is important I learn about the things required of me so I can be a good nurse in the future.

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As a student who poured her heart into her work in hopes of it guaranteeing a future for her, academic integrity was that foundation.

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Academic integrity is important to me because it is in my best interest to do the work myself. Taking a shortcut by copying information from peers or online sources does not help me learn to think creatively, problem solve, or form my own opinions. I will learn the most doing the work myself. Also, I understand that I am extremely lucky to be receiving such a high level of education and it is only fair that I take advantage of what I have the privilege of learning and to honestly use it for the greater good.

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Marginalized people have historically been left out of academia, and as a student, it's my responsibility to uplift their voices and credit their work. Furthermore, it's my job as a student to give my full effort when working; if I cheat or bend the rules to my benefit, I won't be a true academic.

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As a woman, I understand how work and findings from people like me have been uncredited and left out. I'm happy to live in a time where that happens less frequently.

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Academic integrity matters to me because it is a way to assess ones progress. If assignments or essays are plagiarized or modeled after someone else's work, it makes it difficult for someone to truly learn material. It is important for growth to be able to express one's personal ideas and knowledge, not someone else's.

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I am going to college to learn. Without a strict code of academic integrity, I will not accomplish that goal.

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Academic integrity is important to me as I've had my original content stolen in the past. It's a terrible feeling, and it's far more productive to cite the original creator of any kind of content you're using. It allows them to get their name out their and shows that you support creators of all kinds.

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Academic Integrity has developed a deeper meaning to me throughout these past couple years, especially since school was mainly online for a while. Although all I wanted to do was look to my peers for answers, I realized my education and what I learn means more to me than getting all of the answers correct.

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Academic integrity is important because it contributes to the cycle of humans building their ideas off of one another. We cannot progress as a society without the help of others, and when we learn from them we have to credit their work in order to keep this learning cycle going. It's important to be able to trace it back to find out where things have gone wrong, to stop the spread of misinformation, and to examine biases researchers may have had in the past.

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I value academic integrity because it helps communities that I am a part of to maintain respect and pride for the work that is put forward by myself and my peers.

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Academic integrity matters to me because I think that high value should be placed on the collective growth of knowledge as a whole. If academic integrity were to be ignored, it would also ignore the progress of the people who came before us and built us up to where we can stand today.

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To me academic integrity is the practice of sharing information in a ethical and righteous way. Honoring others work and building upon their ideas.

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It matters to me because without it less originality and creativity would flourish within the classroom and beyond.

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To me, academic integrity matters because learning is a skill. For some it comes easier and for others, it is challenging to understand and comprehend. Every person deserves credit for the hard work they do, and without it, they are being cheated of being rewarded for their hard work and success.

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I like the idea of academic integrity being a from of self respect. You take what you've learned and from your own ideas based on that, with your best effort. Pure hard and honest work.

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Academic integrity is crucial to growing and developing as a student and as a person. There is so much knowledge out there to take in and learn from- taking shortcuts only hurts your own development.

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Academic integrity matters to me because as a student who takes pride in his work, I would feel terrible if someone stole my knowledge without citing me. It would also make a diploma feel much less worthy and less meaningful if it wasn't my own work. I came to college to gain knowledge about how the world operates but to also discover myself as a person. This means as a student I must test my limits honestly. Whether I fail or pass I will be fully satisfied if I have given my pure and honest all.

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Academic integrity is very important to me because I really hope to work with my degree through my major in the future. I have always wanted to do something in media and I know the University of Oregon can help me obtain those goals, however, in order to maintain my goals, it is dutifully important that I do my absolute best when it comes to classwork and study.

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Academic integrity is valuable because there is no intellectual gain in stealing the work of others. As students in higher education, we have chosen to be here in order to prepare ourselves for careers or satisfy our curiosity. We can only really do those things when we achieve them ourselves. Others' work cannot prepare one for a career or provide the hard work and effort that is needed to satisfy curiosity.

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Academic integrity to me means to acknowledge and honor the BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ academics and people who came before me to allow the world we live in today. Their stories, experiences, and contributions to society have been largely covered up or discredited, and both acknowledging them and allowing myself to do my own work honors their history.

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Academic integrity is crucial for you, as well as those around you to get a fair shot at the same goal. It helps you and your peers reach your goals totally honestly, with respect, and pride. You are left feeling proud with what you did. Especially when you give credit to those who deserve it such as women and POC.

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Academic integrity allows us to build on the discoveries, thoughts, and ideas of those before us while still acknowledging and respecting their contribution and work. Every discovery is built off of past knowledge that someone else has shared and this allows us to honor their hard work. In school, I feel that if someone doesn't practice academic integrity, then they're earning something they don't deserve. It's not their work, they shouldn't be rewarded for it, the original author should.

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Academic integrity means for me is to have respect for others and myself. Respect creates trust for your peers and community. I feel as though if academic integrity is broken I would not be satisfied with my degree. I would feel ungrateful for the support and scholarships that I have received.

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Academic integrity is important because it benefits not only myself but the community around me. When I follow academic integrity I am learning about new topics and sharing my personal thoughts. This will also help me value my major because with academic integrity I will have a passion to learn from my own thoughts not someone else thoughts. My personal academic integrity will also benefit the community around me because I am sharing my thoughts and citing others works.

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Academic integrity is incredibly important to me for several reasons. Creating my own, original work is an essential part of education for me. It enables me to ask questions and thoroughly research every topic, which will allow me to get the most out of my studies at the University of Oregon. I also place high value on original work and believe it is essential to give credit when referencing someone else's research.

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Academic integrity matters to me because I want to feel proud of the work I've done. I don't take my education for granted; I even wear a family ring passed down from the women in my family to symbolize the gift of having education. I would be doing a disservice to myself, my family, and my future work community if I weren't to be following academic integrity.

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I really liked what one of my fellow students said about how academic integrity helps assure them that they truly earned their degree. I would like the feel like I earned my degree honestly. Another reason academic integrity is important to me is because I want to be sure that I actually know what's going on in my classes so that I'm more likely to succeed in the workplace.

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Academic integrity is the ultimate display of authenticity and pride in your work. This is important to me because it makes me feel proud of the education I am choosing to pursue. Being honest and confident in my work is what allows me to continue to work harder everyday towards my degree and dreams.

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Academic integrity is very important to me for one main reason. The reason is so that I can help push myself through times where I may not have the answer to a question, or even to help a peer overcome their challenges rather than give them the easy way out.

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Academic Integrity means a lot to me because I believe that it shows the true colors of people, and whether people care that much about instant gratification and not working to success, instead of just working to be better.

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To me, academic integrity means no matter how much stress I am under, I will never purposefully and knowingly cheat or copy someone else's work and submit it as my own.

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Academic integrity ensures that the work you will do outside of university will be meaningful and not detrimental. If a future doctor were to cheat their way through school, that could lead to death in patients. If an architect were to not understand the extent of their job, then the quality of the work would be lessened. Without academic integrity, a degree means nothing, and inexperience could lead to faulty work.

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I believe that academic integrity is an extremely important ideal as it not only protects students hard work from being copied but it also helps the professor to better understand the student and their academic level when they are turning in their own work.

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Academic integrity is a fundamental principle in college. It is absolutely crucial students hold ourselves and others to the standard of doing the right thing and being honest when it comes to academics. Without academic integrity there is no true way to measure the success of students in college.

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Academic integrity is important to me because if I cheat my way into a grade or a degree, it means nothing to me. I would rather get a C while putting in my best effort than get an A from copying somebody else's work. I want my hard work to mean something and I want to actually feel prepared as I go through college.

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To give your honest work. If you do not have an answer, give it your best shot. Do not cheat, give what you have.

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As the child of a teacher, academic integrity has always been engraved in my mind. It is important because it helps ensure that you are truly getting educated and that you are getting set up for genuine success.

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To me, academic integrity is putting in your highest capable effort while being honest with yourself, peers and professors. This includes citing used information, real data, not sharing with peers, and implementing university level work.

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Academic integrity is when a student, scientist, author, etc. uses another persons research in their work but cites that person and gives them credit for what they've done. It is respect amongst researchers.

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To me academic integrity is about fairness. I feel as though everyone should have the rights to their own work and academic integrity highlights that and keeps it in focus.

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Academic integrity matters to me because I've worked for almost my entire life to get a quality education. College is an important achievement that would be cheapened by cheating or copying someone else. I want to know that I made it here by my own merit and not by taking someone else's words and ideas, and I want to feel that way throughout college and beyond. When I graduate, I want to be secure in knowing that it was thanks to my own hard work.

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Academic integrity is the idea that we can build off each others ideas, but in the end we have to be putting out our own work. If you cheat your way through a class, can you really value your grade? Does your degree really mean anything?

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To me it means acknowledging the time and work that someone else has put into something. Academic integrity matters to me because it creates a safe place to share research or work without the fear of it being stolen or claimed as someone elses. Overall, this feeling of protection would advance the academic community because more people will be willing to share their work, which, in turn, allows more people to learn from it.

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Academic Integrity is the collective and mutual respect we have for each other's work and the effort put into it and without it, education would not move forward. Simply, stealing someone's work not only means you are disrespecting yourself by getting false credit but disrespecting the individual who has put blood, sweat, and tears on that specific project.

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Academic integrity is very important to me because when I do assignments, I find that I don't really feel that it is completed until I've put my full effort into it. If I try to cut any corners or cheat in any way, I can never feel the credit to be really mine. It is so much more rewarding to be graded on something that I actually put passion and effort into.

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Academic integrity is in my opinion what makes us equals in the classroom. While we may come from all different backgrounds with different opportunities and different strengths; we come together to learn and be equal in our education. Mocking this is in my opinion shameful. I've taken plenty of classes I didn't like or didn't care to do the work, but I never cheated my way through it because that takes away from the class itself and even if I didn't feel it was important I knew I still needed to learn it. Everything holds some form of value depending on how you look at it, you should never let that pass you by.

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To me the term Academic Integrity is made up of many different values. It has been instilled within us since we were children, right from wrong. It is respect, responsibility, honesty, a drive to learn and self succeed. You have the chance to become a master and explore something you are genuinely interested in, why take the shortcut to success?

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Academic integrity is important to me as it allows my work to be taken seriously and allows me to be able to express my own ideas as an individual without relying on others work.

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Academic integrity is an opportunity to broadcast your own thinking and understanding. It is where we get to show what we learn and collaborate in a way that is only possible when we do work based on our own understanding. Without academic integrity, there are hardly academic findings.

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Academic Integrity matters to me because I think it's important among peers to be honest.

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Academic Integrity is being honest about the influences which helped lead you to a particular conclusion as well as ensuring that yourself and others have an equal opportunity to advance their learning through personal achievement. It allows for standards to be accurately imposed, work to be accurately assessed, and triumph to be accurately awarded.

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Academic integrity matters to me because it means that I am taking something valuable from my education, and that the effort and success is coming from me and not from someone else. It also means being inclusive and fair to everyone involved in the educational process.

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Academic integrity means respecting not only my own work and efforts, but also of those before me. It protects the original work, and values the time and effort put in to create it.

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Academic integrity matters to me because it is what will pave my future. Relying on cheating in any form will result in a lifetime of trying to "fake it", defeating the purpose of receiving a higher education. In addition, it is doing an injustice to those who put their time and effort into their studies. I want what I accomplish in my four years at the University of Oregon to be ethical or else I feel as though I didn't accomplish anything- only the ability to steal other's work without being caught.

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Integrity is important to me because I want to be proud of the hard work I have done to do well in my classes and eventually earn my degree. I feel that I can't have that feeling of accomplishment if my work is plagiarized or not properly credited. It's also not fair to those who have put in the hard work only to have their ideas stolen.

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Academic integrity is essential to society because of the implications that dishonesty and disrespect have on everybody's success. If a surgeon or engineer perpetually stole from their peers or role models, many lives could be lost when there is no one for them to influence their ideas from during their work. Thus, it is necessary for everyone to abide by academic integrity at any level of education to prevent the formation of poor learning habits.

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To me, academic integrity directly expresses the self-respect of a person.

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Academic integrity is correctly citing your sources, as well as continuously being a trustworthy student. Trust is easily lost and hard to obtain, so being careful and making choices that preserve you integrity and trust is vital to success.

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What academic integrity means to me is holding yourself to a certain standard which your parents would be okay with. In the end the only person your cheating is yourself, the only person who loses something is the person who cheats.

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For me, I think that academic integrity means holding yourself accountable for your education. You are directly responsible for your own learning and if you don't act with integrity you won't gain anything. But, if you work hard with authenticity and really focus on doing your best you will actually gain a lot from your education.

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When you cheat on homework or any other assignment, you're really just cheating yourself. Since at the end of the day, you are the one that is going to take that test of the week, and those assignments that were meant to help you prepare, have lost their purpose. Then, if you decide to cheat on the test that degree I'll get later on won't hold the same meaning, I didn't deserve it. I would just look at that grade or degree as something to feel guilty about.

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Academic integrity is meaningful to me because it strengthens the community. It represents honesty and trust, and it shows that we value one another.

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Academic integrity matters to me because it means that I am confident in my work. It means that I am respecting myself and others by being truthful.

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Academic integrity means to me always doing my own work honestly, independently, and selfless. It does not mean cheating or using prohibited aids or helping others when not allowed.

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To me, academic integrity goes beyond citing work, although that is very important and should always be done. Academic integrity is honoring the voices of those that inspire your work and being open and flexible to the new voices that challenge your work.

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To me, academic integrity means thinking for yourself in the best interest of the community. You need to be true to your word while expressing your own thoughts and opinions.

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When people come to college they come to learn, to challenge themselves, and grow. Academic integrity reassures that you're learning what you're studying, going against that goes against all the purpose to being attending class lectures and doing homework assignments. Without academic integrity, you don't learn, you're cheating. Like being the best player in a videogame with hacks, you can get used to those hacks, and when you encounter a situation where you can't use those hacks, you're no better than a rookie.

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As a journalism major, and an avid writer, I take academic integrity very seriously. I believe the best work always comes from an authentic source.

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Academic integrity is important to me because I work hard for the work that I submit and turn in. I want to be able to submit my own work without having to worry about someone else taking credit for it or using it without my permission. Academic integrity means to research your own information and give proper credit for any work used.

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Academic integrity is important to me since I put a lot of effort into my honest work and academic integrity puts value in my work.

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Academic integrity to me is being my true self and impowering myself to be honest and brave when working towards my academics. If I were to cheat, lie, and not be my full self I would be depriving myself the opportunity to learn and take chances. Why this matters to me is because I am putting so much time already, so much money already into this, why risk it and degrade yourself in the process.

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Academic integrity means all knowledge I gain and share is either fairly earned through my own efforts or properly given credit to. I am responsible for my own academic success, and no one else.

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Being honest with your work even if you have struggles, and being able to reach out to your teachers for support in a responsible and timely manner.

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Academic integrity to me means always being honest and using your work and/or citing the work of others. I think it's extremely important that we all participate in this in order to play fairly and ensure that our academic environment stays healthy. It matters to me because I want to learn in an environment that is equal for everybody and somewhere that everybody wants to learn. I put all of my effort into my school assignments and projects and if someone were to cheat or use someone else's work, it would invalidate my hard work and effort.