IntroductionIn a research paper, how much information can you “borrow” with or without citing the original author? How do you cite resources that you “borrowed” or cited from the original author? Will anyone know if you send a friend's research paper? No one can see you taking an online test from your living room - should this change the way you take a test? Who is hurt by academic dishonesty? Who cares if you steal test answers, falsify experimental data, cheat on an exam, or download information from a website and hand it in as your own work? To give a simple example, would you want to be operated on by a doctor who cheated to study medicine? Or would you feel comfortable on a bridge designed by an engineer who cheated himself into engineering school? Would you trust your tax return to an accountant who copied his exam papers from his neighbor? All of the above examples reflect a concept called academic integrity. In this essay, two questions will be discussed based on the general topic of “Academic Integrity” in assignments completed by college students. The two questions to discuss are: What is the meaning of “Academic Integrity”? What is the importance of "Academic Integrity" in the assignments completed by college students? What are the meanings of "Academic Integrity"? Integrity is important in all areas of life.(Academic Integrity: A Letter to My Students*by William M. Taylor Professor of Political Science Oakton Community College Des Plains, Illinois) Academic integrity is a commitment, even in the face of to adversity, which is based on five core values ​​including honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility for one's actions. The Center for Academic In...... middle of paper ......nity, like everything else in life, involves a system of interconnected rights and responsibilities that reflect our mutual dependencies on each other. The success of our individual efforts in this course, as in many other things in life, depends on all of us conscientiously exercising our rights and living up to our responsibilities. And the failure of any of us, even just one, to do what is required will diminish, however slightly, the ability of others to achieve their goals. That is why it is essential for all of us in this course to practice academic integrity, in both senses of the word practice. Because today's practice will lay a solid foundation for tomorrow's practice, and the day after that, and the day after that, so that through daily practice integrity is woven into the whole fabric of our lives, and therefore through at least part of our life. fabric of society.