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An extract from a recent statement by the Principal: Plagiarism is literary theft and is a serious form of cheating. It is the act of deliberately presenting as one’s own, the ideas, discoveries or judgements of another person. To copy sentences, or even phrases, without full acknowledgement, from someone else’s work and to thereby convey the impression that they are one’s own is plagiarism. So is the paraphrasing - restating in one’s own words - of someone else’s ideas without full acknowledgement. All of us in our scholarship lean heavily on the ideas of others; we have a most serious obligation to acknowledge them meticulously. This means always putting verbatim borrowings into inverted commas (or indented type) and providing a full and precise reference to work from which they were taken. It is not enough and cannot be accepted as excuse, that the source has been listed in a general bibliography. A full reference must be provided at the point at which the borrowing occurs- whether direct quotation or paraphrase. No student can reach the third or fourth year of an honours degree course without considerable experience of accurate reference structures in scholarly books and articles but if you are in any doubt about the proper forms of acknowledgement, in presenting your third and fourth year assignments and Special Studies, your Discipline Tutors will gladly advise you., Penalty The College Examinations Board is
obliged to notify the University of any case of
plagiarism in student work submitted for University
degree examinations. That a mark of Zero be returned for the piece of work in which the plagiarism has been detected. That the candidate be regarded as having failed to present without good reason for the whole of that examination. |
