ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

1. Unless faculty informs you otherwise, papers are to be written in APA style. In writing papers remember these points to ensure academic integrity:

a. If you cite someone else's ideas, in that person's own words, you must put quotation marks around the words and indicate where they came from.

b. If you cite someone else's ideas, in your own words, you must indicate where the ideas came from.

c. Changing a word or two in someone else's sentences is not appropriate when presenting the ideas and words as your own.

2. The U.S. Attorney for New Jersey and the U.S. Postal Service have successfully obtained consent orders against the two largest term paper companies in this State. The terms of the consent orders provide that these companies must keep comprehensive lists of the clients they serve. These lists must include the client's name, the school he or she attends, the date on which the client secured the material from the company and the type of material secured. The orders also provide that any collegiate institution or faculty member thereof may request copies of these lists upon official letterhead of the institution. The orders further provide that the institution or faculty member may obtain copies of the materials that were sold to particular individuals at the cost of copying such materials.

3. The University Code of Academic Integrity

• Academic Integrity: Issues for Graduate Students
• Rutgers University Interim Academic Integrity Policy
  
  Since adherence to a code of conduct can be seen as a function of socialization into the group whose norms are reflected in such a code, culpability may be assessed differentially for those with more and less experience as members of the academic community; thus, violations of academic integrity by graduate students will presumably be penalized more severely than violations by first semester first year students.