Plagiarism and Essay Writing 2013

8/12/2019 Plagiarism and Essay Writing 2013

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What is la iarism?

Plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct .

Business Schools A Guide to Citing, Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism as:

the act o re resentin work or ideas as ones own without appropriate

acknowledgement or referencing .

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Intentional Unintentional

Rewriting from books, articles etc without referencing

Not knowing when & how to cite and reference

Copying and pasting from any published source to create a

Not knowing how to paraphrase or summarise

ANDpa c wor wr ng

Buying, downloading or borrowing Not knowing what common

Someone writing

an

assignment

for

Not

knowing

you

cannot

recycle

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ag ar sm s etecte y 0 servant tutors an many tutors w require you to submit your work viaTurnitin .

THE CONSEQUENCESBoth intentional AND unintentional la iarism are

categorised as ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT and can result in

at the lowest level, a ZERO MARK for the assignment

more serious cases

PERMANENT EXCLUSION

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WHAT YOU MUST DO

Familiarise yourself with The Universitys Code of Good

Practice on Managing Academic Misconduct defines the 4 main types o plagiarism .

Familiarise yourself with and use The Business School documents Guide to Citing, Referencing, and Avoiding Plagiarism explains citing, referencing and plagiarism, the different referencing styles and more and

A to

Z

list

of

style explains how to reference and give in text citations .

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WHAT YOU MUST DO

Complete the resources on the Exeter Learning Environment

(ELE) Understanding Plagiarism aims to provide an understanding of plagiarism, explains how to avoid academic misconduct, gives examples of intext referencing and explains

equip you with the skills for referencing, explains why referencing is important, what a reference is and when and how to reference.

en e n terms 1 & 2 offered as part of The Business School's X celerate

ro ramme. In weeks 8 ou MUST attend at an Academic

6Honesty Workshop

and

then

complete

the

on

line

Quiz.


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AVOIDING PLAGIARISM IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY SO

Remember all the sources of your work must be

documented

Keep good records

Understand how to paraphrase, summarise and reference correctl

Never purchase student essays and claim them as your own

Never ask someone to write an essay for you

7 Allow sufficient time to complete your work


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Writin an essa usuall re uires ou to:

Construct an argument

Assess and weigh up evidence

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a conc us on

t at

emonstrates

your

t oroug

understanding of the subject area under discussion

Depending on your academic history you may need help in .

students but YOU MUST BE PROACTIVE.

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THE

QUESTION

...

THE MARKING CRITERIA

CHECKS

RESEARCH THE TOPICREFERENCE

PLAN YOUR WRITE THE

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.take advantage of the resources and support available including:

The Business Schools A Guide to Essay Writing for

Business Students explains

the

stages

of

researching,

,

guides you to other places to find help.

ELE resource Essay Writing A guide to planning, writing and editing an essay, advice on analysing essay questions, referencin develo in a critical a roach unctuation and grammar .

The Business Schools Writing task for 1st year undergraduates to be undertaken by all students .

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