For an upcoming assignment, your professor has asked for at least 5 outside sources, properly referenced. Not confident in your referencing skills, you just include the links to where you found the content. Can this be considered a breach of academic integrity?

Question

Question 10 options:
No, you did include the sources by including links
No, you know you should have cited, but your professor should understand and just take a couple of marks off
Yes, you did not properly cite and without in-text citations your professor won’t be able to tell which words and ideas are your own
Yes, but your intention was not to engage in a breach of academic integrity, so everything should be OK once you explain it to your professor

Answer 1

The most accurate answer to your question is:

Yes, you did not properly cite and without in-text citations your professor won’t be able to tell which words and ideas are your own.

In academic settings, proper referencing is crucial to maintain academic integrity. Simply providing links does not meet the standards of citation required for most assignments, and it can lead to misunderstandings about the originality of the work and the source of the ideas presented.