Plagiarism, Copying Or Cheating

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Academic misconduct as defined in the “Guidelines on Ethical Scholarship, Academic Literacy and Academic Misconduct” is any activity or practice engaged in by a student that breaches explicit guidelines relating to the production of work for assessment, in a manner that compromises or defeats the purpose of that assessment. Students must not engage in academic misconduct. Penalties for academic misconduct vary according to seriousness of the case, and may include the requirement to do further work or repeat work; deduction of marks; the award of zero marks for the assessment; failure of one or more units; suspension from a course of study; exclusion from the University; non-conferral of a degree, diploma or other award to which the student would otherwise have been entitled. For further information on the rules and procedures in respect of appropriate academic conduct you should visit: http://www.teachingandlearning.uwa.edu.au/tl4/for_uwa_staff/policies/student_related_policies/academic_conduct

Plagiarism is one example of academic misconduct 1. Plagiarism is taking someone else’s thought, writing or invention and claiming it as your own. 2. All references to other work must be properly cited in the text eg. (Smith 1996) and the article must be fully described in a references section including author’s name, date, title, book/journal, volume/page numbers.

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