CHEATING

Trent University’s integrity policy should be familiar to all students.

Cheating carries serious long-term risk. It jeopardizes students’ career prospects and reputational standing. Trent University may rescind a degree retroactively if an academic-integrity violation is discovered after graduation. If a violation occurs before degree completion, the phrase Academic Dishonesty will appear on the offending student’s official transcript for a period of five years.

I take cheating seriously. Any work or any portion of a work submitted to me that has not been written for my course alone will be regarded as evidence of academic misconduct. This includes content poached from published sources, unpublished sources, other students, and the internet.

It also includes content produced by ChatGPT, MS Copilot, or any other generative A.I. platform. Students should know that chatbot cheating is easy to detect. The linguistic tells in A.I.-generated prose are glaringly obvious to academic experts. A.I. detectors are as powerful as chatbots, since they have been engineered by the same tech companies.

Students are strongly urged to keep research notes, rough work and early drafts of course submissions until the release of their final grades at the end of term.