Week 2 - Academic Integrity & Plagiarism

Why is it important to deconstruct your assessment questions?

• Helps to understand them better.

• Helps identify the different parts, including instructions.

• Helps to work out what research areas to undertake.

• All provided answers.

What is meant by Academic Integrity?

• Acknowledging the work of others in your own work.

• Being honest about the sources you have used and work you have done.

• Demonstrating trustworthiness by showing your own knowledge

• All provided answers

What doesn't breach/break Academic Integrity WAI rules? (more than one answer to choose)

• cheating on tests and exams.

• acknowledging sources in your work through referencing.

• getting another student or a professional writer to do your work for you or pretend to be you.

• working with others to discuss ideas, but independently writing your own assessments.

• using copy & paste information in your work without a correctly written reference.

How can you avoid breaching WAI's Academic Integrity rules?

• By being sneaky and trying to work out better ways to cheat.

• By including lots of copy & paste in my assessments, but then using a reference to pretend that it's still ok to do this.

• By pretending that I haven't been taught anything about Academic Integrity rules when I get caught.

• By demonstrating that I've understood what I have read in the work of others by putting that information into my own words - not copy/paste, or using only the main point of the information and then using an intext reference.

What must you always make sure you include in your assessments?

• Information from questionable sources

• My unsupported opinions on the subject

• Copy and paste information that I adjust using a thesaurus

• Credible and relevant intext references and a Reference List.

How can I avoid plagiarism in my work?

• By citing all sources you have gotten information from.

• By starting my work early enough so I am not tempted to use lots of copy and paste.

• By undertaking the FACS activities on how not to plagiarise.

• By keeping track of all my sources as I write my assessments

• All provided answers.

Plagiarism is using the work of others in your own work without acknowledgement? True or False?