Crafting Ethical Scholarship

A timely, evidence-based guide to reclaiming academic integrity and the mission of higher education.

Today's academic integrity policies are punitive, ineffective, and entirely focused on student misconduct. Crafting Ethical Scholarship shifts the paradigm away from compliance by exploring how scholars develop authentic academic integrity through relationships within disciplinary communities. Doubling down on student misconduct won't solve today's AI-powered crisis of academic cheating. What college faculty and administrators need is an alternative to the current lose-lose strategy, one in which academic integrity is recognized as a road map to achieving higher education's highest goals.

Crafting Ethical Scholarship recenters higher education as an inspiring place where expert thinkers create, explain, and build new knowledge. Coauthors Karyn E. Kessler, Paul J. Michiels, and Paul M. Rogers take readers inside the writing processes and life journeys of award-winning scholars across disciplines, showing how real academic integrity functions and contributes to the production of knowledge. The book offers a radical new model of academic integrity that relies on community and relationships to build diverse, equitable, and inclusive institutions.

Karyn E. Kessler is Associate Teaching Professor of Linguistics and Director of the English for Multilingual Students Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
 
Paul Michiels is Lecturer in the Writing and Communication Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
 
Paul M. Rogers is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Director of the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: A Perfect Storm

Part I. Looking over the Shoulders of Scholars at Work

1. Expert Writers' Visible Technologies, Tools, and Tactics

2. How Real Intelligence Generates Writing

3. To Write Is to Think

4. The Expert Writers' Commitment to Scholarly Community

Inter-Section I: Orienting Students in the Direction of Expert Practice

Part II. Understanding the Development of Expert Scholars

5. Learning to Engage with the Universe of Sources

6. Transitioning from Student to Scholar at the Threshold of a Discipline

7. The Forging of Experts in Community

Inter-Section II: Orienting Students in the Direction of Expertise

Part III. Safeguarding the Future of Ethical Scholarship

8. Calling on the "Office of Academic Dishonesty"

9. Revitalizing the Mission of Higher Education

10. Applied Ethics: Approaching Academic Integrity Through an REoC Framework

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Study Design and Research Methods

References

Index