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ACADEMIC HONESTY

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Academic honesty is at the heart of studying and working at university. It is important that our students understand what it means to be honest in their work so we can make sure that we can maintain reliable standards for our academic awards, and students continue to enjoy studying for academic qualifications that have a good reputation.

At our University we take a formative approach to assisting students to work with academic honesty. University Library modules on academic skills provide students with the opportunity to develop further. Statements on academic honesty are included in module guides and student handbooks and a booklet, ‘Guidance on being honest in your work' (.pdf) has been issued to all students.

Further, all students will have the opportunity to undertake a formative assignment before their first written assignment. They will be able to test their work, for the formative assignment for plagiarism through the ‘TurnitinUK' text-matching software package.

Students are encouraged to discuss the report with their personal tutor to see where they may need to improve their academic practice. These formative TurnitinUK originality reports will not be viewed as assessment offences. However, some caution is necessary in interpreting the reports since some degree of matching of text, for example, in references or quoted passages, should be expected.

In addition to our own provision, there are a number of external resources available to help you help your students to develop academic honesty in their work, and avoid assessment offences:

Tutorials For Students

All the following resources are free to use, subject to the attribution of the original author.

Narrated slides on plagarism from the University of Leeds (This resource won a prize in the recent Jorum Learning and Teaching competition, and is free to use under the Creative Commons Licence.)
Interactive subject based online tutorials on plagiarism from the University of Leicester (Free to use under the Creative Commons Licence.)
Indepth internet tutorial on plagiarism from Indiana University Bloomington which includes:
- Examples of plagiarised and properly referenced versions of text
- Practice Test on identifying plagiarism, with feedback to student
- Self test and certificate

Please notify the author if adding a hyperlink to your website or handouts.

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Website on plagiarism from plagiarism.org (Free to use under the Creative Commons Licence.)

Creative Commons Licencing

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