1. Plagiarism

...is the act of taking and using the whole or any part of another person's work and presenting it as your own without proper acknowledgement.

proper acknowledgement = citing the author in the correct way.


citation style = rules for creating a reference to a source that includes all the information needed to find that source.

Examples of another person's work:

• text
• writings
• computer programmes
• web pages
• online discussions
• videos
• music
• sound recordings
• images
• photographs
• technical drawings
• inventions
• research findings
• diagrams
• charts
• art or designs
  

Note: Plagiarism is a serious offence resulting in failure, suspension, or your removal from the course.

More on Plagiarism

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To Avoid Plagiarism...
...always provide a Reference List or Bibliography and cite every source you use, especially when you:

• Quote - use someone else's exact words, phrases or sentences


• Paraphrase - change someone else's material to put it into your own words


• Summarise - give the main ideas of another source in your own words


• Use someone else's charts, graphs, illustrations, images, codes etc.

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