leg skills

Why is it important to reference your academic work correctly? 

• To acknowledge the work of others

• To show evidence of wider reading

• To give authority to/support the points you are making

• To allow the lecturer to locate the sources that you are using

• All of the above

Alice and Beth are studying. Alice asks if she can borrow some bits from her essay for an upcoming assessment. Beth agrees as it is only a mock/practice assessment. What academic misconduct issue might be raised here?

• This is academic misconduct in the form of collusion. Both girls have acted inappropriately and the university would not be able to determine which student had completed the original work. The issue would be dealt with according to the university's academic misconduct policy.

• Alice may be guilty of academic misconduct as she was using someone else's work.

• It depends

Plagiarism is deliberate behaviour, not accidental

• True

• False

Buying an assessment on the internet is plagiarism

• True

• False

Paraphrasing ideas from other people is plagiarism

• True

• False

• It depends

Quoting a source word for word is plagiarism

• True

• False

• it depends

If you need support writing assessments you can ask the staff for support.

• true

• false