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|Student Survival Guide |
|Axia College of University of Phoenix |
This is a guide that will serve me as a resource throughout my program, using the topics I have learned in this course as reference and guide.
Using Axia’s Educational Resources
Axia’s Educational resources located in the student web page are the best tools to help me on my studies. There I can use the online library to do research using articles databases like EBSCOHost, Gale PowerSearch and Proquest. It is very useful because I can also download full articles to my computer or my PDA for study reference. To identify key information within articles, I use keywords or small phrases; I can also search for peer reviewed papers when the assignment requires it. An additional tool for research is the internet. While using this tool is very fast and you can always find any topic being researched, it is important to use the information carefully and use critical thinking to evaluate every source. The student forum is the online classroom where I post threads, assignments and participate in class. The forum is also the place where I receive grades and upload my papers for review, and get feedback from my instructor.
Upholding Academic Honesty
The code of conduct of Axia College of University of Phoenix states that using someone else’s work as your own is called Plagiarism. If a student’s work is categorized as plagiarism it can have severe consequences, both legally and academically. Whether accidental or intentional, plagiarism can result in failing grades or it can be as serious as being expelled from the university. If the University decides to, they can put a permanent letter in the student’s file and this can result in possible problems getting accepted at...