Academic Integrity

The LBJ Graduate Writing Center promotes academic integrity and personal responsibility. In addition to writing seminars, individual consultations, and group training, students have access to the following resources:

University of Texas at Austin

Academic Integrity—The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies
Features a brief ethics training presentation offering guidelines for academic integrity

The Standard of Academic Integrity—Student Judicial Services
Discusses scholastic honesty policies at the University of Texas at Austin

LBJ School of Public Affairs

Academic Integrity and Professionalism—LBJ School of Public Affairs
Discusses how to fulfill academic integrity and professionalism requirement at the LBJ School of Public Affairs

Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism—Talitha May, LBJ School of Public Affairs Graduate Writing Center
Features rules for proper attribution, discusses forms of plagiarism, and concludes with a brief documentation overview

Guides and Tutorials

Writing with Internet Sources: A Guide for Harvard Students—Expository Writing Program
Addresses how to locate, evaluate, and responsibly cite electronic sources

Legal Writing Institute Plagiarism Policy—Terri LeClercq, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Offers a plagiarism policy for Law Schools with hypothetical classroom situations and a plagiarism exercise

St. Martin’s Tutorial on Avoiding Plagiarism—Bedford/St. Martin’s Press
Allows writers to “practice skills like integrating sources and recognizing acceptable summaries”

Carlos and Eddie’s Guide to Bruin Success With Less Stress—UCLA team of experts
This creative and enjoyable tutorial is an “introduction to acedemic integrity and intellectual property”, which “demonstrates how issues related to ethical uses of information and various media formats are relevevant not only to their academic careers, but also to their daily lives” (UCLA)

Plagiarism Quiz—LBJ School of Public Affairs Graduate Writing Center

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