Academic Integrity Gateway
Do you know everything you need to know about academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism?
Start by reading the code and policy
Test your knowledge with this interactive quiz.
Did you score 100%? If yes, then you're ready to master the details.
More Information on Academic Integrity, Avoiding Plagiarism, and Writing College Papers
- Further explanation of academic integrity concepts
- Writing Guide (Villanova University Writing Center)
- More links to style Guides
- APA Style tutorial (requires Flash player - included with most browsers)
- Glossary of terms relating to academic integrity
Academic Integrity Essentials
- How to recognize plagiarism (guide to correct paraphrasing from the School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington)
- Plagiarism & Copyright Facts for Students (CY-Fair College)
- Try "You Quote It, You Note It!" (interactive tutorial from Acadia University in Nova Scotia)
- Essential parts of a citation
- Researching and documenting sources in the Humanities (from Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online)
- Researching and documenting sources in History (from Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online)
- Researching and documenting sources in the Social Sciences (from Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online)
- Researching and documenting sources in the Sciences (from Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online)
Test your progress with some of these quizzes
- Essential parts of a citation: Before you can format a citation correctly, you need to recognize the essential elements
- Paraphrasing: How do I borrow from a source without plagiarizing?
- Common knowledge: Everybody knows that! (Or do they?)
- MLA Citation: Try your hand at formatting in-text references and Works Cited entries according to MLA style, most often used in language and literature.
- APA Citation: How well have you mastered the format for in-text citations and the list of references according to APA style, popular in nursing and the social sciences?
Other Helpful Resources
- Web-related copyright issues (interactive presentation) (requires Flash reader)
- Center for Academic Integrity (Rutland Institute for Ethics, Clemson University)
- What is plagiarism? (Georgetown University)
- Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue University)
- Plagiarism and how to avoid it (Drew University)
The purpose of the Academic Integrity Gateway is to create an online guide to help Villanova University students in their attempt to maintain academic honesty while abiding by acceptable scholarly practices. We hope it will become a major point of reference for faculty and librarians in their attempt to encourage high standards for student research and writing as they uphold the academic integrity policy of Villanova University.
A collaboration of the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
and Falvey Memorial Library
*We gratefully acknowledge the work of Beth Meszaros for the development of the quizzes.
Last Modified: August 21, 2008
