Academic Integrity

Information about permitted copying is openly available. Notices detailing the concept of “fair dealing” and copyright warnings are prominently displayed above all library devices. Referencing: Students will be explicitly taught that it is necessary to identify the source of ideas or a quotation in academic writing. This enables the reader to locate the source in the Reference List at the end of the piece of work. It will be made clear that this holds true even when the ideas from another author’s work are summarised or paraphrased. Failure to do this will be considered plagiarism and will be regarded in the same manner as cheating in an examination. The School standard for referencing is APA, a version of the author/date system. In conjunction with academic staff, the library staff will assist in the development and instruction of School standards. Students will be explicitly taught that attention to detail is necessary, including punctuation. Teachers may penalise incomplete or inconsistent referencing. Instructions on the compilation of a Reference list and how to undertake accurate referencing and in-text citations will be available in the library and on the library pages on Minerva, but especially in AskClio resources. Software to compile reference lists [CiteMaker] will be purchased and made available to students via library staff and resources. Authorship: Students will be expected to sign authorship statements guaranteeing the originality of, and/or “fair dealing” within, their work. Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the action of using or copying the ideas or creative work of another person and representing it as one’s own original work. These include both published (in print or electronically) and unpublished documents, artwork, music, photographs, etc. Students seeking unfair advantage by such intentional appropriation are guilty of academic misconduct and may incur penalties. Library staff will educate staff and students in ethical research strategies so that academic expectations are fulfilled and respect for other people’s original thinking and creative products is encouraged. It is also unacceptable for one student to lend her original work to another student who may copy the piece, in part or in whole, and then submit it as her own. Examples of plagiarism: The following acts submitted in assessment items, without citing and referencing, are considered plagiarism. This will be a section of the assignment task provided by teachers.

• Direct copying • Copying of ideas, research (e.g. statistics, graphed results, etc), images, etc. • Paraphrasing or summarising ideas without changing the meaning or structure • “Cutting and pasting” from a number of sources • Presenting as independent, work done in collaboration with others

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