Summaries of Articles on Citation and Honesty

Academic Honesty, Continued by Mathilda Liberman
In this article, originally published in September 1993, Mathilda Liberman, Director of the Writing Lab at Grinnell College, considers the writing challenges that may lead students to violate the rules of academic honesty unwittingly. In particular, she examines the difficulty of paraphrasing.

New Approach to Academic Honesty by Helen Scott
This October 1994 article by Helen Scott, Associate Dean of the Faculty at Grinnell College, explains the college's then newly-established approach to academic honesty, an approach which includes a mandatory lecture on the subject to all new students and a required individual exercise to demonstrate students' understanding of the issue.

Confessions of an Academic Honesty Lady by Judy Hunter
This May 1997 article by Judy Hunter, Assistant in the Writing Lab, examines the societal trends which make teaching about academic honesty so difficult and so important.

Karin Connelly on Who Uses What
In October 1992, Karin Connelly, Assistant in the Writing Lab, investigated what citation formats various departments at Grinnell required of students. She comments here on the results of her research.

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