Academic Integrity Students

To ensure you maintain academic integrity avoid the following:

Plagiarism

• directly copying sentences, paragraphs or other extracts from someone else’s work without appropriate acknowledgement. Such work includes published or unpublished documents, designs, sounds, images, photographs and films, programming code, libraries, plugins, data, 3D models, textures and materials and any other digital files or assets,
• paraphrasing someone else’s work (slightly changing the wording) without acknowledgement. Acknowledgement is given by reference to the original work,
• using facts, information and ideas directly taken from an identifiable source without acknowledging the source, and
• committing self-plagiarism (reusing work that you have already submitted - presenting old work as new and original).

Cheating in examinations

• have access to unauthorised material during the examination,
• sitting an examination on behalf of another student or permitting another student to sit an examination on your behalf,
• read, copy from or use another student’s work, or knowingly allow another student to read, copy or use your work in an examination,
• assist any student in completing their examination, either directly or indirectly,
• accept assistance from any person during an examination other than authorised staff,
• inappropriately obtain prior knowledge of an exam’s contents and/or expected answers.

Collusion

• assisting another student to commit an academic integrity breach in the process of completing an assessment task intentionally or otherwise,
• accepting assistance to commit an academic integrity breach, intentionally or otherwise, when completing an assessment task,
• unauthorised collaboration with other students when completing an assessment task,
• submitting work which is the same, or substantially the same, as another student’s piece of work for the same assessment task,
• submitting files to assignment sharing websites,
• assisting other students in plagiarising material or cheating in an examination.

Contract cheating

• Contract cheating ‘occurs when a student submits work that has been completed for them by a third party, irrespective of the third party’s relationship with the student, and whether they are paid or unpaid’ (Harper, Bretag, Ellis, Newton, Rozenberg, Saddiqui & van Haeringen., 2019, p. 1857). The student does not have to have remunerated the third-party for contract cheating to have occurred.

Other

There are many ways in which a student might attempt to gain an unfair advantage by dishonest means deliberately. Some examples are:

• submitting fabricated or falsified data as if they were genuine,
• inventing references, quotes or sources,
• falsely indicating attendance at an activity when attendance is an assessment requirement.

Use our Referencing Tool to ensure you are correctly referencing your work.