The International Center for Academic Integrity defines academic integrity as a commitment to five fundamental values:
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Academic work is a shared enterprise that depends on a commitment to truthfulness.
TUS students are expected to abide by the standards of intellectual integrity that govern the broader academic community to which the College belongs:
(Source: LIT Student’s Charter 2018, p.19)
Your lecturers design coursework so that you learn important skills that you will use throughout your time in college and in the workplace. You are expected to build on the work of others while you create something original from that work.
You can achieve academic integrity through:
Writing in an academic context is different from writing in other situations. There are specific conventions of structure, style and content that your lecturer expects to see in your assignments. So it can be a challenge at first.
Don't be tempted to take short cuts, always approach your academic writing with honesty and integrity.
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Umberto Eco's wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, published in English for the first time. By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis--from choosing a topic to organizing a work schedule to writing the final draft. Now in its twenty-third edition in Italy and translated into seventeen languages, How to Write a Thesis has become a classic. Remarkably, this is its first, long overdue publication in English. Eco's approach is anything but dry and academic. He not only offers practical advice but also considers larger questions about the value of the thesis-writing exercise. How to Write a Thesis is unlike any other writing manual. It reads like a novel. It is opinionated. It is frequently irreverent, sometimes polemical, and often hilarious. Eco advises students how to avoid "thesis neurosis" and he answers the important question "Must You Read Books?" He reminds students "You are not Proust" and "Write everything that comes into your head, but only in the first draft." Of course, there was no Internet in 1977, but Eco's index card research system offers important lessons about critical thinking and information curating for students of today who may be burdened by Big Data. How to Write a Thesis belongs on the bookshelves of students, teachers, writers, and Eco fans everywhere. Already a classic, it would fit nicely between two other classics: Strunk and White and The Name of the Rose. Contents The Definition and Purpose of a Thesis * Choosing the Topic * Conducting Research * The Work Plan and the Index Cards * Writing the Thesis * The Final Draft
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Acadmic Integrity guide created by Sarah Lawrence College Library licensed under 
DKIT's Library guides on Copyright and Plagiarism - how to avoid it 
both licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (reused and adapted from original)
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