Academic integrity and beyond
Section outline
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Week 1 will define integrity in the context of learning, highlight its importance for professional life, and stress its role at the personal level.
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Week 2 will analyse how to develop academic skills for integrity, such as summarising, paraphrasing and referencing; we will look closely at academic writing skills and assessment styles, and we will see why it is important to understand Copyright and Open Licences.
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Week 3 is devoted to defining misconduct, studying skills and how to seek help; we will dive into Polimi’s Code of Ethics and Conduct as an example of the internal norms to support integrity.