1. Academic offences or how to avoid plagiarism

2. Academic Offences What are Academic Offences?
Various ways of presenting work that is not your own
Also known as academic misconduct
Falsifying information
Cheating!
Why should we be bothered?
To meet the academic standards of your course
To maintain academic integrity
To be fair to all students

3. Academic Offences - Definitions
Plagiarism failure to acknowledge the work as that of others
Collusion deliberate and intentional collaboration
Duplication replication of an element(s) of one’s own material without referencing the original work

4. Academic Offences
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5. Academic Offences - Definitions
Aiding and abetting a student assists another student in the completion of assessments
Cheating in an examination bringing any unauthorised materials or electronic mobile devices into an exam
Commissioning another person(s) to complete and/or undertake an assessment(s) which is subsequently submitted as the student’s own work

6. Academic Offences - Definitions
Fabrication of information making up results, interviews, data etc.
Impersonation posing as another student to take an assessment or exam
Syndication two or more students submit substantially similar assessments, on either the same programme, or across programmes at the College, at the same or different times

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9. Harvard Referencing Top tips for references
Make a list as you go along
Note the author, title, date and publisher
For articles, note the title and the journal title
For chapters, note the title and the book title
For websites, note the URL and which part of the site you are viewing, the date and preferably, take a printout

10. Harvard Referencing Where to find help
Guide to the Harvard System of Referencing
via iPAC, LRC Homepage or Moodle: Student Intranet.
Use Turnitin to check your similarity score.

11. Academic Offences – True/False Game

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