English Composition › Section M · The research process › Topic M.5
Ethical research and academic integrity
Research rests on trust: participants trust you with their words and privacy, and readers trust that every borrowed idea is credited and every fact is real. Ethical research protects both kinds of trust, and most lapses are avoidable with careful habits.
In this topic
- Two kinds of responsibility
- Human participants and review boards
- What academic integrity means
- Deliberate and careless plagiarism
- What plagiarism is not
- Worked example: diagnosing three passages
- Generative AI and integrity
- Detection and consequences
- Worked example: a note-taking slip
- Habits that prevent plagiarism
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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