The Scholarly Conversation

In this section you'll learn...

At colleges and universities all around the world, students and faculty are participating in scholarly conversations, otherwise known as "academic discourse." This discourse is how scholars engage with each other, communicate their research, and build on existing scholarship to create new knowledge.

In other words, the scholarly conversation includes YOU! Whether you are writing a final paper for a course or sharing your thesis with the world using BEARdocs, you are now engaging in academic discourse.

For the scholarly community to function, there are four distinct pieces that have to work together. This series of tutorials will discuss each of these components, which lead to academic success.

After completing these tutorials, you’ll have practical tools and techniques for engaging in academic discourse while avoiding plagiarism and other dishonest behaviors.

By participating in the scholarly conversation, you produce new knowledge and intellectual property. Your thoughts belong to you, and successful academic discourse protects those rights and respects those of other scholars.

The rest of these tutorials will guide you through successful engagement in the scholarly conversation.

Credits

Exploring Academic Integrity Tutorial by the Baylor Libraries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This tutorial is based on content from the "Exploring Academic Integrity Tutorial" by the Claremont Colleges Library. The rest of the content was developed by Amy James, Head of Instruction and Information Literacy, and Ellen Hampton Filgo, Assistant Director of Research & Engagement, Baylor University Libraries.

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