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1 PLAGIARISM Dr Cordelia Beattie School Academic Misconduct Officer

2 Plagiarism is a SERIOUS ACADEMIC OFFENCE and can have serious consequences for your studies.

3 Plagiarism is a form of cheating and is contrary to the principles of academic study. It is regarded by the University of Edinburgh as academic misconduct and is a punishable offence under the University’s Code of Discipline

4 Plagiarism Ignorance is not a defence in cases of suspected plagiarism. It is therefore very important that all students understand what plagiarism is and take steps to avoid it.

5 Your dissertation is a major part of your degree and it is vital that you avoid any academic misconduct in the process…

6 German parliamentary speaker Lammert in plagiarism controversy German parliamentary speaker Lammert in plagiarism controversy - University of Bochum launched a plagiarism investigation into German parliamentary speaker Norbert Lammert's PhD dissertation, after anonymous allegations about parts of his doctoral work. 30/07/13

7 Former German Foreign Minister Faces Plagiarism Accusations According to reports in German weekly magazine Focus, Economics professor Uwe Kamenz sent an e-mail to the University of Giessen to inform that he had used special computer software to scan Steinmeier's PhD thesis in law from 1991 and the comparison with 95 sources had yielded problematic similarities in more than 500 places. 30/09/13

8 Plagiarism Detection Software Turnitin software works by comparing the content of an uploaded assessment to a vast database of digital content, papers, journals and publications. The software cannot identify whether or not plagiarism has occurs but it does highlight sections of text that are duplicated in other sources held in the database. There is NO acceptable Turnitin report except 0

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10 What is plagiarism?

11 Plagiarism is the act of including in one’s work the work of another person without providing adequate acknowledgement of having done so, either deliberately or unintentionally.

12 Plagiarism example Including in your work extracts from another person’s work without using quotation marks and acknowledging of the source. (The source might be a book, another research paper, a website, another student’s work, comments or notes from a member of staff, data, or pictures.)

13 Plagiarism example Cutting and pasting from electronic sources without explicit acknowledgement of the URL and the author, and without explicitly marking the pasted text in inverted commas, or labelling the source of the diagram or illustration.

14 Plagiarism The inclusion of large amounts of pasted material, even if acknowledged, always raises doubts about how much of the work presented should be credited to the student. The same applies to over-quotation from a traditional, printed source.

15 What is plagiarism?

16 Academic Misconduct Self-plagiarism is a serious academic offence…

17 Academic Misconduct Self-plagiarism is a serious academic offence… Regulation 32 states: ‘A student who has previously submitted work for one course at the University must not submit the same work to attempt to achieve academic credit through another course.’

18 How to avoid plagiarism

19 provide full citations of all sources (books, articles, websites, newspapers, images, artefacts, lecture handouts, data sources etc.) used in the preparation of a piece of work.

20 How to avoid plagiarism properly reference the sources of the arguments and ideas used in an assignment, using the recognised reference system for the subject area. Both quotations and paraphrased or summarised versions of arguments or ideas should be referenced in this way.

21 Suspected Plagiarism The University takes all cases of suspected plagiarism very seriously.

22 Suspected Plagiarism The University takes all cases of suspected plagiarism very seriously. You may be (severely) penalized if judged guilty of plagiarism.

23 Suspected Plagiarism The University takes all cases of suspected plagiarism very seriously. You may be (severely) penalized if judged guilty of plagiarism. Academic misconduct at Honours level is deemed serious enough to be handled at College rather than the School level

24 These sites offer guidance on preventing or avoiding plagiarism. They include examples of what constitutes plagiarism and of study skills that can help you avoid it: http://www.plagiarism.org/ http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/advice http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/plagiarism.html

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