Northwestern

Principles Regarding Academic Integrity

• 官方来源Official source https://www.northwestern.edu/provost/policies-procedures/academic-integrity/principles.html
• 域名Domain northwestern.edu

It is each student’s responsibility to be aware of all rules and policies applicable to their program. In particular, it is the student’s responsibility to understand the guidelines set by instructors around the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Such guidelines may vary considerably from course to course and even across assignments within a single course.^{课程规则优先Instructor override} When students have a question regarding the acceptable use of GenAI, they are expected to seek clarification from the instructor.

Basic Standards of Academic Integrity

All students registered for classes at Northwestern must adhere to the University's standards of academic integrity. These standards may be intuitively understood and cannot in any case be listed exhaustively; the following examples represent some basic types of behavior that are unacceptable:

Cheating

• Using unauthorized notes, study aids, or information on an examination.
• Allowing another person or resource (including, but not limited to, generative artificial intelligence) to do one's work and submitting that work under one's own name without proper attribution.^{默认规则Default rule}

Plagiarism

• Submitting material that in part or whole is not entirely one's own work without attributing those same portions to their correct source.^{披露要求Disclosure}
• Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, the unauthorized use of generative artificial intelligence to create content that is submitted as one's own.^{违规定性Integrity framing摘录Excerpt}

Fabrication

• Falsifying or inventing any information, data or citation.
• Presenting data that were not gathered in accordance with standard guidelines defining the appropriate methods for collecting or generating data and failing to include an accurate account of the method by which the data were gathered or collected.

Eight Cardinal Rules of Academic Integrity (selected rules)

• Acknowledge Your Sources. Whenever you use words or ideas that are not your own when writing a paper, use quotation marks where appropriate and cite your source in a footnote, and back it up at the end with a list of sources consulted.
• Do your own work. The purpose of assignments is to develop your skills and measure your progress. Letting someone else do your work defeats the purpose of your education, and may lead to serious charges against you.^{学习理由Learning rationale}
• Never fabricate data, citations, or experimental results. Many professional careers have ended in disgrace, even years after the fabrication first took place.^{核实责任Verification duty}
• Always tell the truth when discussing your work with your instructor. Any attempt to deceive may destroy the relation of teacher and student.

Sanctions (relevant excerpt)

All proven cases of an academic integrity violation should be penalized as appropriate under the circumstances. Depending on the nature of the offense, a student may be suspended or expelled as a result of a first-time offense. Possible grade sanctions include: no impact on the grade; the requirement to redo the assignment; grading the relevant piece of work with an F or 0; a failing grade for the course.