1.4 What are falsification, fabrication, and misrepresentation - and who would do that anyway?
Plagiarism is a form of cheating — it is the act of taking someone else's word or ideas and using them as your own. Other forms of misconduct include cheating on examinations, assignments, reports, or any other work used to evaluate student performance, including copying from another student's work or allowing ones own work to be copied, submitting another person's work as ones own, fabrication of data, consultation with an unauthorized person during an examination, or use of unauthorized aids. 
Impersonation
, for example, occurs when someone pretends to be you or when you pretend to be someone else for any type of academic evaluation, whether its an exam or participation in an online class or on a discussion board (Hill, 2010, p. 5). UOIT's policy explicitly states that [i]mpersonating another student or allowing oneself to be impersonated for purposes of taking examinations, or carrying out laboratory or other assignments is not allowed. Another form of cheating is the falsification or misrepresentation of data and information. This includes falsifying academic records, including tests and examinations, or submitting false credentials for purpose of gaining admission to a program or course, or for any other purpose.
Falsification is also misrepresenting someone's work or ideas (Hill, 2010, p.5). For example, if you use a study that concludes that smoking has many negative and typically severe health effects, but you use an ambiguous quote from the study to say that the study found that smoking only has minor health consequences, this would be falsifying the information reported in the study. When paraphrasing other people's writing/ideas/research, you must accurately summarize the information and not distort its meaning. Another example is falsifying results of a lab experiment to show what should have been the correct results even though you made a mistake when conducting your experiment. Fabrication, on the other hand, is making up information without any data to support it (Hill, 2010, p.5).
Misrepresentation can refer to the misrepresentation of facts, whether written or oral, which may have an effect on academic evaluation. This includes making fraudulent health claims, obtaining medical or other certificates under false pretenses, or altering certificates for the purposes of misrepresentation. In addition, this type of cheating can also include the misrepresentation of yourself (i.e., impersonating another person or having someone pretend to be you) (Hill, 2010, p.5).
The bottom line is that falsification, fabrication and misrepresentation are cheating and types of academic misconduct.
That's all interesting, but what is the difference between falsification and fabrication?
The bottom line is that they are both cheating and a type of academic misconduct. Falsification is misrepresenting your own or someone else's work or ideas (Hill, 2010, p.5). For example, if you use an ambiguous quote from a study to make an argument that the study does not actually support, you are falsifying the research. When you paraphrase other people's writing, ideas, or research, people assume that you are doing so accurately and without distorting its meaning. Another example would be that you could falsify the results of an experiment to show what should have been the correct results even though you made a mistake when conducting your experiment. Fabrication is making up information (Hill, 2010, p. 5) or data. In the case of the Wakefield study on the link between MMR vaccine and autism, Wakefield both falsified information and fabricated his results.
If fabrication is making up information and falsification is twisting or lying about information to suit your conclusions, what is misrepresentation?
There are overlaps between the three terms, but there are also some distinctions. Usually, misrepresentation refers to things like making fraudulent health claims, obtaining medical or other certificates under false pretences, or altering certificates like a doctor's note (UOIT Policy p.35). Misrepresentation can also include impersonation (Hill, 2010, p.5), for example, getting a friend to take an exam while pretending to be you.
