ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT Plagiarism 1 Academic Learning Development, Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit

Definition of plagiarism Passing off someone else’s work as your own, either intentionally or unintentionally ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT

How to Avoid it Wrong question! Ask instead: How to Write Best? Always give your source Paraphrase or quote Note source when reading ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT

How to Reference Always reference twice: Once in text Once in reference list or bibliography In text it is short: Author, date of publication, page number (if relevant). At end it is full: Author, date, title, publication details (you can find out more about how to do this by using resources on the ALD Blackboard). ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT

Using Literature to Prepare 1. Read (for the question) 2. Make notes with source, page number, quotes 3. Put similar topics together (according to PLAN) 4. Compare contrast combine 5. Write 6. Always reference everything you say 7. Complete reference list or bibliography ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT

Using Literature to Write Referencing shows: an ability to find relevant information an understanding of the topic an ability to summarise what you have read and identify important points This will help to improve your marks You can reference by: o paraphrasing part of the text o quoting directly When should you quote and when should you paraphrase? ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT

How to Summarise and Quote Look at these exercises Look at Academic Learning Development Blackboard. ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT

Turnitin: Help Support Writing Originality reports highlights unoriginal text helps show what needs correctly referencing ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT text matching a website and % of submitted work matched to this source

ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT you can submit a draft first see Originality Report on personal assignment page reflect on referencing and writing – range and quality of sources, level of quoting and paraphrasing see

Plagiarism Policy: Educate-first, detect and penalise plagiarism second all Undergraduate and Masters coursework (levels 4-7) will be submitted to Turnitin for originality checking: where it is in a format acceptable by Turnitin and unless your tutors feel it’s not appropriate because of the nature of the assessment (this will be the exception to the rule). you will have an opportunity, and be encouraged to, submit at least one draft and view the originality report for each piece of coursework you’re asked to submit to Turnitin. there will be an educational focus on the use of Turnitin early on in your programme to help you understand the meaning of originality reports and avoid plagiarism. still used to help detect and penalise plagiarism after educational focus/draft submission. see: ACADEMIC LEARNING DEVELOPMENT