This is a list of academic offences under the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters and some real-world examples of those offences.
These are the offences in the Code: |
… and these are a few examples of each offence |
B.I.1 It shall be an offence for a student knowingly… |
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Forgery: To forge or in any other way alter or falsify any document or evidence required by the University, or to utter, circulate or make use of any such forged, altered or falsified document, whether the record be in print or electronic form; |
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Unauthorized Aid/Assistance: To use or possess an unauthorized aid or aids or obtain unauthorized assistance in any academic examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work; |
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Personation: To personate another person, or to have another person personate, at any academic examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work; |
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Plagiarism: To represent as one’s own any idea or expression of an idea or work of another in any academic examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work, i.e. to commit plagiarism (for a more detailed account of plagiarism, see Appendix “A” of the Code); |
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Double Dipping: To submit, with the knowledge and approval of the instructor to whom it is submitted, any academic work for which credit has previously been obtained or is being sought in another course or program of study in the University or elsewhere; |
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Concocting: To submit any academic work contained a purported statement of fact or reference to a source which has been concocted. |
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Furthermore, section B. I. 3. B: states:
“It shall be an offence for a faculty member or student alike knowingly to engage in any form of cheating, academic dishonesty or misconduct, fraud or misrepresentation not herein otherwise described in other to obtain academic credit or other academic advantage of any kind.”
Taken from the University of Toronto Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters - Prepared by N. Panchal, UTSC Office of Academic Integrity, 2016.