Student Survival Guide - 14

Student Survival Guide - 14

  • Submitted By: jtimmons
  • Date Submitted: 03/17/2009 6:04 PM
  • Category: Technology
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STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE James Timmons Axia College of the University of Phoenix Axia has an abundance of resources that its students can utilize. The best resource available to me is the University Library Tab. The University Library Tab contains three essential parts. The Center for Writing Excellence (CWE), The Center for Mathematics Excellence (CME), and the University Library make up the parts of this learning tool. The CWE has is made up of the Plagiarism Checker, WritePoint, and the Tutorials and Guides. I can write an academic paper and turn it in to the CWE to check for plagiarism and likeness to other writers’ works. WritePoint can help me review and check my papers for grammatical errors and other related mistakes. The Tutorials and Guides can help me to understand and properly use the CWE and all of its components. The CWE is also a good tool that helps me to uphold Academic Integrity. I will never knowingly copy someone’s work and pass it off as my own, but it’s good to have a tool that can check the Internet for similar works to provide a little warning and protection against plagiarism. Academic Dishonesty can also include classmates copying each other’s work and not showing their own individual efforts. I don’t mind working with classmates, but I will not do their work for them. Plagiarism is a serious offense and it is has a one strike policy. Different instructors may have different consequences, but none of them will favor a plagiarizer. The best way for me to avoid plagiarism is to do my research and write my papers in my own words. If there are instances where I have to use someone else’s words, I will provide a reference to the source from which I got them from. The University Library is also a good tool for me to have for research purposes. The University Library has three major search engines that can provide as detailed of search as I can think of. I prefer to use the University Library rather than to look up books and articles myself,...

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