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    Annex D1: Guidance on avoidance of plagiarism and academic

    dishonesty
    This Annex gives some guidance on how to avoid academic dishonesty (particularly
    plagiarism, falsification of results and collusion), and identifies the regulations which are
    applied in suspected cases of academic dishonesty.

    Declaration and academic dishonesty

    1 When submitting a thesis (or approved alternative) for examination for a higher
    degree, students are required to sign a two-part Declaration (see 1.6.4 and Annexes
    B1 & C1 of the Code of Practice). The Part 1 Declaration includes a commitment to
    having undertaken research in an ethical and appropriate manner.

    2 Examiners are required to confirm, as part of the examination process, that they are
    satisfied as far as possible that the Part 1 Declaration made by the student is true.

    3 It is the students’ responsibility from the outset of their research programmes to


    ensure that they fully understand the implications of the Declarations for the conduct
    of their research and for the way in which they write it up in the thesis presented for
    examination.

    4 Academic dishonesty includes plagiarism, falsification of research results, collusion,


    cheating in examinations, and any other action by the student which gives a false
    impression (intentionally or unintentionally) to an examiner or assessor that what is
    put forward for examination or assessment is the student’s own work.

    Plagiarism

    5 In the course of their research, research students will inevitably draw on a wide range
    of previously published material, of which some will directly inform and influence their
    own lines of enquiry. It is important that reference to other people’s work is
    acknowledged properly while the student’s own research should be related to it
    carefully and unambiguously. Sources of information should always be
    acknowledged, both by a footnote and in the bibliography/reference section.

    6 This account of plagiarism is adapted from the MLA Handbook for Writers of
    Research Papers, ed by Joseph Gibaldi and Walter S Achtert, 2nd edn (New York:
    MLA, 1984). The following paragraphs are largely quotations from this source.

    Please note that the illustrations given are from literary criticism and anthropology but
    the issues are the same in all disciplines. In mathematics and science, for example,
    the unacknowledged usage of data constitutes plagiarism even if it is adapted in
    presentation. If in doubt, students must check with their supervisors.

    7 TO PLAGIARISE IS TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN OR


    THOUGHT SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE IN FACT BORROWED FROM
    SOMEONE ELSE. Plagiarism is the act of using another person's ideas or
    expressions in your writing without acknowledging the source. The word comes from
    the Latin word plagiarius ('kidnapper'), and Alexander Lindey defines it as 'the false
    assumption of authorship: the wrongful act of taking the product of another person's
    mind, and presenting it as one's own' (Plagiarism and Originality [New York: Harper,
    1952] 2).

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    8 Plagiarism in student writing is often unintentional, as when a school pupil, assigned
    to do a report on a certain topic, goes home and copies down, word for word,
    everything on the subject in an encyclopaedia. Unfortunately, some students
    continue to use such 'research methods' without realising that these practices
    constitute plagiarism. Students may certainly use other persons' words and thoughts
    in their essays or research papers, but they must acknowledge the authors.

    9 The most blatant form of plagiarism is to repeat as your own someone else's
    sentences, more or less verbatim. Suppose, for example, that you want to use the
    material in the following passage, which appears on page 906 in volume 1 of the
    Literary History of the United States:

    "The major concerns of Dickinson's poetry early and late, her 'flood subjects',
    may be defined as the seasons and nature, death and a problematic afterlife,
    the kinds and phases of love, and poetry as the divine art."

    If you write the following without any documentation, you have committed plagiarism:

    The chief subjects of Emily Dickinson's poetry include nature and the
    seasons, death and the afterlife, the various types and stages of love, and
    poetry itself as a divine art.

    You may present the information if you credit the authors:

    Gibson and Williams suggest that the chief subjects of Emily Dickinson's
    poetry include nature, death, love and poetry as a divine art (1974, 1, 906)

    The sentence and the parenthetical documentation at the end indicate the source,
    since the authors' names and the volume and page numbers refer the reader to the
    corresponding entry in the bibliography:

    Gibson, W.M. and Williams, S.T. 1974. 'Experiment in Poetry: Emily Dickinson
    and Sidney Lanier in Literary History of the United States, ed. by Robert E.
    Spiller and others, 4th edn, 2 vols, New York: Macmillan, 1, 899-916

    10 Other forms of plagiarism include repeating someone else's particularly apt phrase
    without appropriate acknowledgment, paraphrasing another person's argument as
    your own, and presenting another's line of thinking in the development of an idea as
    though it were your own. Two more examples follow:

    Original source

    This, of course, raises the central question of this paper: What should we be
    doing? Research and training in the whole field of restructuring the world as
    an 'ecotopia' (eco, from oikos, household; - topia from topos, place, with
    implication of 'eutopia' - 'good place') will presumably be the goal. (From E.N.
    Anderson, Jnr., 'The Life and Culture of Ecotopia' in Reinventing
    Anthropology, ed. by Dell Hymes, New York: Vintage-Random, 1974, 275.)

    Plagiarised in student writing

    At this point in time humankind should be attempting to create what we might


    call an 'ecotopia'.

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    Here, the writer borrowed a specific term ('ecotopia') without acknowledgment.
    Plagiarism could be avoided by rewording slightly and inserting appropriate
    parenthetical documentation.

    At this point in time humankind should be attempting to create what E.N.


    Anderson, Jnr (1974) has called an 'ecotopia' (275).

    As before, the sentence and the parenthetical documentation in each revision identify
    the source of the borrowed material and refer the reader to the full description of the
    work in the bibliography at the end of the paper.

    Anderson, E.N., Jnr. (1974). 'The Life and Culture of Ecotopia' in Reinventing
    Anthropology, ed. by Dell Hymes, New York: Vintage-Random, 264-81

    11 If you have any doubt about whether or not you are committing plagiarism, cite your
    source or sources.

    12 In addition to correctly attributing extracts or ideas of previously published work to the


    author(s) students must also ensure that their own personal share in any investigation
    is clearly stated, where any collaboration has taken place between the student and
    their supervisor or another person.

    13 Plagiarism may also take place when one student copies work from another student,
    without the knowledge of that student. In this case both students may be suspected of
    academic dishonesty and be subject to a disciplinary investigation.

    14 Care should be taken to present all data in such a manner that allows no room for
    doubt as to the authorship of the research.

    Falsification of results

    15 Researchers may be tempted to falsify the outcomes or results of research if


    experiments or surveys or other research methods produce data which do not confirm
    the researcher’s expectations or hopes. Such falsification of results is dishonest.

    16 Research needs to be reproducible, by the same or other researchers, to gain


    validity, and research students may need to repeat their research activity several
    times in order to be confident in the results they have obtained. It is crucial that the
    research design is appropriate from the start if results are to be valid.

    17 Data collected through research needs to be recorded accurately. Researchers must


    use appropriate forms of analysis to identify patterns and correlations, and then seek
    explanations for what has actually been found, not for what they wish had been
    found. There may be creativity and insight about the implications of the results, but
    not about the core data nor about the analysis of that data.

    Collusion

    18 Collusion is also a form of academic dishonesty. This is similar to plagiarism, but


    involves two or more students working together, without the prior authorisation of the
    supervisor, to produce the same piece of work, and then attempting to present this
    work individually as entirely their own work. Any suspected cases of collusion will be
    subject to the regulation governing academic misconduct.

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    Regulatory framework

    19 Ordinance IV (6) states that A student found to have cheated in degree


    assessments/examinations (including those for research degrees) may by decision of
    the Vice-Chancellor be denied a degree and be denied the right to be re-
    examined/re-assessed. The student will also be liable to other action by the Vice
    Chancellor.

    20 Any allegation or suspicion (by the examiners or the University) of academic


    dishonesty in relation to examined or assessed work will be investigated under
    procedures set out in Regulation 8 (12) relating to cheating and other misconduct in
    examinations. The investigation and subsequent procedures will in general follow the
    normal disciplinary procedures (see Regulation 20).

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