Academic Integrity for Academic Success
Date: Wed. Feb. 3, 2021
Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm ET
This Learning Commons workshop,co-facilitated by representatives from the ESL Open Learning Center, the Libraries and the Writing Department, offers international students tips and strategies on writing and preparing papers that adhere to academic integrity principles.
Students learn not only how, but why scholars avoid plagiarism. In this highly interactive workshop, students will have the opportunity to apply and discuss concrete strategies and techniques to improve their knowledge and confidence around academic integrity norms and citation conventions. All YorkU students are welcome including undergraduate and graduate students.
Register
*Once your register, a Zoom link will be sent to your email
Event Details
What is Happening?
Additional Resources
How to Prepare for the Event
Topics we will cover:
Tips and strategies for writing and preparing papers
Identify more common forms of academic dishonesty
Improve your knowledge and confidence on academic integrity norms
Discuss techniques for citation conventions
Locate and apply academic conventions and citing practices for paraphrasing, quoting and accrediting sources of information
Student resources to guide you in your essays and assignments
What is the Learning Commons? How can they help?
How to be successful @ York!
We will be joined by representatives from different units in the Learning Commons:
The Libraries
Writing Centre
ESL Open Learning Centre
Learning Commons
Workshop Presentation Slides
You can download the slides.
Academic Integrity Resources
SPARK’s Academic Integrity Module- York University Libraries
Guides to Citing Your Sources
Citing Your Work Guide – York University Libraries
SPARK’s Creating Bibliographies Module – Learning Commons
Citation Management Tools
Zotero Guide – York University Libraries
Mendeley Guide – York University Libraries
Other Related Resources
Learning Commons: SPARK (Student Papers & Academic Research Kit)
Learning Skills Services: Note Taking Resources, Time Management Resources, & Student Guide to Remote Learning
Come prepared, ready to learn
The Learning Commons are here to help you succeed in your courses and academics. They will be sharing lots of strategies and tools that you can use in your academic writing projects.
Set up your space
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Bring your questions
Even if you do not have questions, feel free to join and listen to what other people are asking! You never know, they might ask a question that you never even thought of, and is helpful to you.
Invite your friends!
Learn alongside your friends and feel confident in your academic writing. There will be lots of fun activities prepared in this workshop.
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