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All unit study guides are required to contain the following text. Unit coordinators may expand on this if they wish, e.g. extracting additional parts of University policies, or elaborating with relevant examples.
The University regards most seriously any acts of dishonesty relating to assessment.
Cheating includes plagiarism, unauthorised collaboration, examination misconduct and theft of other students’
work. Plagiarism and collusion are defined as including any of the following five types of behaviour, and apply to work in any medium (for example, written or audio text, film production, computer programs):
Inappropriate/ inadequate acknowledgement - material copied word for word which is acknowledged as paraphrased but should have been in quotation marks, or material paraphrased without appropriate acknowledgement of its source.
Collusion - material copied from another student’s assignment with her or his knowledge.
Verbatim copying
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- material copied word for word or exactly duplicated without any acknowledgement of the source.
Ghost writing - assignment written by third party and represented by student as her or his own work.
Purloining - material copied from another student’s assignment or work without that person’s knowledge.
Acting dishonestly in assessment is defined as misconduct under the Student Discipline Statute. Depending on the seriousness of the case, it can lead to a requirement to undertake additional work, failure in a unit or in a part of it, suspension from the University or even permanent expulsion from the University. The University regards any form of cheating as a serious matter of academic dishonesty which threatens the integrity of the assessment processes and awards of the University, to the detriment of all other students and graduates of the University. In case of doubt as to what is acceptable, please check with your tutor.
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