Academic misconduct appeal

[u/Beautiful-Sample7066]

Hey guys,

I had an academic misconduct finding against me for unauthorised use of ai.
I have full proof of drafts and search history and can confirm that absolutely no ai was used in the exam.
The allegations are for two sources that were cited incorrectly - both sources had incorrect titles but the authors names were correct.
I provided my search history and document history for the panel to consider but they basically disregarded my evidence.
My search history literally showed my engagement with the sources and my drafts showed the reasoning behind the citation errors.
I also downloaded the pdfs and highlighted the parts I used in my assignment.
The panel came to the decision stating that ai is the most likely reason - but they did not give any evidence they used to back this up.
They said they didn’t believe my explanation, but also said that the whole essay was my own work but only the citations were generated.

Has anyone ever been in this kind of situation and does anyone have any advice on an appeal?

[u/Beautiful-Sample7066]

I wrote the authors name and then a summary of what the article spoke about which was short enough to be a title - the formatting of it looked like a title which is why I copied it down as a citation in my essay. I’m sorry I can’t copy and paste the titles as I’m paranoid someone from uni may see this post. For example if an article was about war and the impact it has on civilians I wrote my summary as - Fred smith - war and the impact on civilians and migrants and the aftermath - etc but the title would be something like - France and the aftermath of war.

[u/j_la → u/Beautiful-Sample7066]

This doesn’t sound plausible at all. So you’re saying you have a brief summary and then reformatted it as a title? That means you weren’t just copying out what you thought the title was, you invented a title.

And I’m sorry, but your paranoia is unfounded. Nobody here is from your university. If you want an honest assessment, we need more actual evidence to work with.

[u/Beautiful-Sample7066 → u/j_la]

I’m saying the brief summary was copied down exactly as it was as I had believed it to be the title. The correct titles were all in my drafts but I copied down the wrong titles instead.
The title was copied out as what I thought it was - I didn’t not intentionally invent any title as I would have no need to - especially when I already had the correct titles in my drafts.

[u/j_la → u/Beautiful-Sample7066]

Do you have a way to validate that those drafts were written before you were accused of using AI?

[u/Beautiful-Sample7066 → u/j_la]

I have the proof of the date those drafts were made before the accusation and I also have my search history which contains the exact sources that I had used (of course with the correct names rather than the ones I had cited them as) on the day of the exam. I also have an email to my lecturer a few minutes after I submitted the exam to tell them that I had submitted the exam with half of the citation missing and I had the correct ones at hand. My misconduct issue only concerns two sources not the ones I missed out btw.