ABSTRACT
Academic honesty is a well established principle, and most institutions have clear policies to enforce such concepts in student work. Similarly, faculty traditionally follow principles of citation, quotation, and paraphrasing in writing papers, giving talks, and other scholarly endeavors. At some schools, cases of academic dishonesty apparently seem modest and isolated. At other schools, some faculty report that 20% to 30% of all academic dishonesty cases at a school involve computing courses. Many schools have rules regarding academic honesty. Students must report lab data accurately, give credit to others for their ideas and words. Colleges and universities typically have school-wide policies and procedures regarding plagiarism, individual work, collaboration, and similar matters related to academic honesty. Although writing corresponding problems may seem reasonably straight forward in many contexts, instructors sometimes may misjudge the difficulty of a problem.
