Most of the UNF Academic Integrity Code is fair to the student with its has six different rules of integrity code to measure students. The six rules include cheating, fabrication & falsification, multiple submissions, plagiarism, abuse of academic materials, and complicity in academic dishonesty. The
First, UNF has effective measures on the first rule, cheating, because they contain strong words that prevent students from cheating. Many students want to get a good grade so they turn to creative people who use many different styles of cheating. UNF uses the word “intentionally” for this rule. An example of creative cheating is a female student using her nail and putting all the important vocabulary shnauthorized materials” for cheating to prevent from students creative cheating. However, UNF also needs to improve this rule because sometimes, students unintentionally do cheat. For example, during the exam time, a student just wants to see the time so he tries to look up. At that time, he sees the paper of in front of the student accidently. If a situation like this happens, how can UNF deal with the situation? If UNF puts the words “faults of negligence are also cheating”, they can handle the unintentional problem easily. The second rule is Fabrication and Falsification. This rule also has both strong and weak parts. First of all, this rule chooses good words such as “unauthorized alteTherefore, the students may think of inventing resources and citations from their brain especially when they are close to the assignments due date. This rule picks specific words to prevent students from being in violation of the rule. However, occasionally, resources disappear by writers or webpage administrators especially with Internet resources. At this time, how can UNF deal with the situation? If UNF put the words “can officially existences of academic resources” they can handle this problem because most students save the resource by picture, PDF file, Words file, or print it out. The last rule is complicity in academic dishonesty. This rule needs to be more specific because UNF uses illusory words such as “providing assistance in any form.” These words may confuse students as it can be interpreted in different ways. How would students know when providing assistance be considered dishonest. Therefore, UNF needs to change these illusory words to specific words and include example situations to students who can get some ideas of the rules. For instance, providing assistance that can help other students und\e stronger than now. Consequently, most of the UNF Academic Integrity Code rules are very fair and effective for the students and choose specific words that protect students from violating the rules. However, even though UNF’s Academic Integrity Code has strong parts of its rules, they still have weaknesses so they need to improve the rules so they can make very strong academic rules.