MLM Toolbox for Students - Plagiarism

Students are expected to learn about and discuss the views or theories of others. This must be done with appropriate referencing of their source material. Plagiarism refers to the practice of presenting the words of another author (it may, for example, be a text writer or another student) as your own. This is not permitted.

All assessment items must contain a list of references: a bibliography is not required. Your references must be cited correctly using the Harvard System. Quotations must also be clearly identified. Without correct referencing, you are plagiarising your source(s). This is regarded as cheating, and can have very severe consequences for you. It is punishable by a range of penalties, including a deduction of marks, failing a unit of study and, in the most serious cases, exclusion from a unit of study, a course or AMC.

Plagiarism can be avoided by:

• citing the source when drawing from the work of other authors and showing the quotation in inverted commas
• only incorporating the words used by text writers, the Unit Coordinator or other students in the answer when attributing those words to the author
• never handing in an assignment which is the same as, or closely similar to, another student's assignment.

When two or more substantially similar assignments are received, the students concerned are likely to forfeit marks for that assignment: it may result in failure of the unit of study.

The assessor may contact students to discuss verbally, or require further written work, to clarify the content of any or all of the coursework.