Academic Integrity Statement
What is Academic Integrity?
One key value at USC is "Academic Integrity": Honesty in all academic endeavors. Academic integrity should be the number one priority for all student-athletes. Those who fail to uphold these standards not only suffer severe grade consequences, but they also cheat themselves and others out of learning, degrade the value of their degree, and diminish the prestige of the USC Athletics Department, their team and their USC education.
The most common forms of "Academic Dishonesty" are the following:
- Plagiarism: The act of taking ideas, writings, or visual art of another person, including a tutor, and presenting them as your own. In writing, this could take the form of word-for-word copying, paraphrasing, or even taking the structure of someone else's work and presenting it as your own. To avoid committing plagiarism, make sure you cite your work using MLA or APA citation standards.
- Cheating on exams: This could take the form of having someone else take the exam for you, looking on someone else's paper/exam or letting someone look on yours, and taking unauthorized notes into the exam.
- Cheating on assignments: Copying another person's work, collaborating on academic assignments with another person without faculty authorization, giving your work to another student, or buying or borrowing papers.
If at any point you are unsure whether your actions violate the USC "Academic Integrity" standard, talk to your SAAS Academic Counselor, Learning Specialist, Learning Assistant, or Tutor. They can assist you in better understanding the different forms of academic dishonesty and ways to avoid them.
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