Week 8: Final Project Ideas

This week’s post for academic integrity, regard choosing the topic that will be pursued in my final project. The area of authorship in academic integrity has been kind of intriguing to me. I just realized how there are so many rules all over, and in different fields. I also was really shocked that you can plagiarize yourself… Using your own words…

There are two topics in mind right now regarding academic integrity, that are of interest for me. First, could be regarding the authorship rules, and how it varies in fields… And how people can be more conscientious of these rules… And stop doing others favors and making them authors. I think this is something general graduate students don’t have in mind, and in fact some violate these without realizing they’re violating an important rule….

The second topic that’s of interest to me is about plagiarizing oneself. I’m interested in learning more about the rules of using your own work after it’s been published. In fact, recently I was in the middle of a discussion that required using figures previously published by some of the authors, and work that wasn’t published… The main authors were trying to figure out how to get permission, and also give credit to those with unpublished work that didn’t contribute directly to their paper, but instead were contributors to something not directly related.. Watching their entangled discussion, I felt that had I published before or had expertise to the area, I could give my 10 cents about it.. So I wanted to gain knowledge in the area…

So those are the two areas I’m considering for my final project. I’ll narrow it down to one of those two soon… Or maybe I’ll do both briefly…