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UCF Policy on Academic Honesty and Responsible
Research Conduct
Here are some resources to help you better understand your responsibilities:
• Graduate Student Guide to Success
Plagiarism Training Module- required for all new/incoming students. Note: Students will be
automatically enrolled in this Webcourse. If not completed by the stated deadline a hold that prevents
future registration will be placed on the student’s myUCF account.
Plagiarism is the act of taking someone else’s work and presenting it as your own. Any ideas, data,
text, media or materials taken from another source (either written or verbal) must be fully acknowledged.
A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas, opinions, theories, formulas, graphics, or pictures of
another person without acknowledgment. A student must give credit to the originality of others when
the student is:
1. Directly quoting another person’s actual words, whether oral or written;
2. Using another person’s ideas, opinions, or theories;
3. Paraphrasing the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of others, whether oral or written;
4. Borrowing facts, statistics, or illustrative material; or
5. Offering materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections without
acknowledgment.
When using the ideas, opinions, theories, formulas, graphics, or pictures of another, students must give
credit to the original source at the location or place in the document where that source’s material is found
as well as provide bibliographic information at the end of the document. When students are verbally
discussing the ideas, opinions, theories, formulas, graphics, or pictures of another, they must give credit to
the original source at the time they speak about that source. In this manner, students must make clear (so
there is no doubt) within their written or verbal materials, which parts are gained from other sources, and
which are their own original ideas, theories, formulas, graphics, and pictures. The Office of Student Conduct
has a set of criteria that determines if students are in violation of plagiarism. This set of criteria may be set
to a higher standard in graduate programs. Therefore, a student may not be found in violation of plagiarism
by the Office of Student Conduct, but a professor or program requiring higher standards of attribution and
citation may find a student in violation of plagiarism and administer program level sanctions. The standard
in doctoral programs should be the highest as students earning these degrees are expected to be experts
in their fields and producing independent work that contributes knowledge to their discipline. To learn more,
please visit https://graduate.ucf.edu/plagiarism/
• HIPAA Training Module-Required every year
Other Program Requirements
Academic Integrity - Ethics/Responsible Conduct of Research Workshops
The College of Graduate Studies and the Office of Research and Commercialization offer a series of workshops to
enable graduate students to fulfill our programs two-workshop requirement in ethics and responsible conduct of
research. All Master’s students are required to complete at least one CORE workshop and at least one other
CORE or ELECTIVE workshop, for a total of two workshops.
CORE and ELECTIVE workshops are offered every Fall and Spring semester. There will be a limited offering of
sessions during the Summer semesters. The ethics/responsible conduct of research (RCR) workshops are provided
at no cost and are open to all UCF graduate students and postdoctoral associates. Note: You must complete this
requirement by the end of Summer (1
st
year).
https://graduate.ucf.edu/pathways-to-success/