Fabrication and Falsification
Fabrication or falsification occurs when a student invents or distorts the origin or content of information used as authority. Examples include:
- Citing a source that does not exist
- Citing information from a source that is not included in the source for which credit is given
- Citing a source for a secondary proposition that it does not support
- Citing a bibliography source when it was neither consulted nor cited in the body of the paper
- Intentionally distorting the meaning or applicability of data
- Inventing data or statistical results to support conclusions