ACADEMIC
HONESTY
POLICY
All schools have policies on plagiarism or academic honesty. The consequences are real and could result in a F for the class, expulsion from the class or expulsion from the college/university.
Clark Atlanta University's policy (CAU Student Handbook p. 91)
Interdenominational Theological Center's policy (ITC's Academic Catalog, Cheating, Plagiarism, and Academic Misconduct, p.116)
All schools have policies on plagiarism or academic honesty. The consequences are real and could result in a failing grade for the class, or expulsion from the class or college/university. It is paramount that you read and understand the policy of your institution.
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When an assignment calls for scholarly sources, typically that means academic books and articles from scholarly journals. Some scholarly articles are called peer-reviewed as they are critically evaluated for originality, quality of research, and clarity of presentation by the author's peers, i.e., other experts who do research in the same field.
Evaluating Sources
Author
Who wrote it? Does the source provide information about the author’s credentials and profession? Can you detect the author’s bias or point of view?
Publisher
Who published it? Is it a corporation, a government agency or a professional organization?
Audience
Who is the main audience? Is it the general public or people with a particular bias? How does it affect the tone and evidence in the source?
Date of publication
When was it created or last updated? Is it up-to-date?
Purpose
Was it written to inform, persuade, entertain or sell?
Usefulness & Coverage
How is it relevant to your topic? Does it cover your topic generally, partially or in depth? Is it a primary or a secondary source? What kind of evidence does the source present?
Links/references
Are they reliable, relevant, and sufficient?
The following web sites have been carefully selected for providing reliable information. If you are using information from the web, it is your responsibility to make sure that it is from authoritative resources. A Quick Guide to Evaluating Internet Information is available.
Meta-sites
Amoeba Web is maintained by Dr Douglas Degelman of Vanguard University of Southern California. According to the APA monitor, "AmoebaWeb showcases psychology at its best". Topic areas include research writing, research methods, research ethics and more.
Mental Help Net is the most comprehensive source of online mental health information, news and resources. It also offers community resources such as chat-rooms, discussion forums, and opinion polls for mental health consumers and professionals.
Psychweb is a psychology portal designed to provide secure email and links to pertinent psychology Web sites on the net.
The Personality Project is a searchable index site that encompasses a wide range of different topics in the field of Personality Psychology.
Social Psychology Network contains links to sites pertaining to both psychology and social Psychology and is supported by a National Science foundation. It provides links to rankings of the top PhD programs in psychology and counseling, from the Gourman Report and from a 1995 study of the National Research Council
Online books and papers
Classics in in the History of Psychology is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and over 150 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to nearly 200 relevant works posted at other sites.
CogPrints (Cognitive Science Eprint Archives) is an electronic archive for papers in the area of cognition and includes papers from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics.