Developing good academic practice

Presenting someone else's words or ideas (intentionally or not) as your own work in order to gain personal benefit.

• Plagarism

• Collaboration

• Reference

• Common knowledge

• Collusion

Working appropriately with one or more students to help you practise and develop your understanding.

• Plagiarism

• Collusion

• Common knowledge

• Collaboration

• Reference

Providing the author, title and source of material used in your work, normally presented as a list at the end of your answers.

• Reference

• Collobaration

• Plagarism

• Common knowledge

• Collusion

Something that is widely known within your subject area and can be attributed to a number of sources

• Collusion

• Reference

• Collaboration

• Plagiarism

• Common knowledge

Working inappropriately with one or more students to gain or give an unfair advantage, e.g. jointly answering assignment questions rather than working individually.

• Plagiarism

• Collaboration

• Common knowledge

• Reference

• Collusion

Which of the following are examples of plagiarism? (Select all that apply.)

• a. Copying text, diagrams or data from any published material (e.g. books, DVDs, websites, etc.)

• b. Passing off someone else's work or ideas as your own in order to gain some personal benefit

• c. Taking someone else's words from a spoken or online discussion and passing them off as your own for your own benefit

• Using work or information produced by someone else and not acknowledging (e.g. referencing) this source

• Discussing and/or writing up the final answers to an assignment with other students as a group rather than doing this individually

Which one of the following examples represents good academic practice, and so conforms with academic integrity?

• a. Allowing another student to copy your assignment either before or after it has been marked.

• b. Discussing your studies with other students in an online forum to help you develop a better understanding of the topic.

• c. Posting an assignment question to an online chat site and asking what the answer is, irrespective of whether you then use the answers given by others in your own work.

• d. Submitting work for assessment that you did not write.

• e. Discussing the precise answers to assignment questions with other students before either you or they have submitted this work for assessment.

Scenario: A student is struggling with some of the questions in his next assignment, so decides to post each question on a study chat site he's found useful in the past when he's needed information on a wide range of topics.

The next day, three responses have been posted to one question along with two answers to the other two questions. He chooses what he thinks are the best responses for each question, and pastes them directly into his assignment to create his final assignment answers.

This scenario is an example of good academic practice. Is this statement true or false?

• True

• False