Academic Integrity Scenarios by

meganlmcintosh — 2025-09-14 22:52:14 UTC

Samantha pays an editing and grammar service to professionally edit her assignment. The editor re-writes portions of her assignment so that it makes more sense. Is this an academic integrity violation?

meganlmcintosh — 2025-09-14 22:54:01 UTC

Your friend, Kyle, asks for a copy of an assignment you completed in your research methods seminar last semester. Kyle is taking the subject this semester and submits an assignment that is very similar to yours. What could be the outcome of this?

2025-09-15 01:22:26 UTC

You use GenAI to come up with an essay outline.

2025-09-15 15:06:12 UTC

I prepare a paper that draws heavily from an essay I submitted last year. While the arguments are my own, large sections of the text are reused almost word-for-word. I’m unsure if this is acceptable. Should I rewrite everything, or can I acknowledge my prior work somehow?

2025-09-16 05:15:19 UTC

In the current semester, I was assigned a research essay topic that closely resembled one from the previous term. Because of time pressure, I decided to further develop the ideas from my earlier essay. Even though I tried to avoid self-plagiarism, I found myself using a similar structure and many of the same references, which made me unsure whether this was acceptable.