Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
Students at AIEN Insitute who are enrolled in the UTAS Bachelor of Business or Information Systems Degree program are subject to the same rules concerning plagiarism and academic misconduct as students on the Tasmanian campus and will be subject to the same academic penalties. Plea refer to Section 2.4 of the UTAS Student Orientation handbook for more information on academic discipline.
The following information is very important and it is the responsibility of each student to read and understand the information contained in this document. If you are unsure of any of the information contained here speak to your AIEN Lecturer.
The information contained in this document is taken from the UTAS web site. Students are strongly encouraged to visit the web site and to read all the material available to assist you in avoiding academi
c misconduct. The web site has many more resources and a small lection from the site can be found in this document for your convenience.
www.utas.edu.au/plagiarism/
www.academicintegrity.utas.edu.au/
What is academic integrity?
Academic integrity is about mastering the art of scholarship. Scholarship involves rearching, understanding and building upon the work of others and requires that you give credit where it is due and acknowledge the contributions of others to your own intellectual efforts.
At its core, academic integrity requires honesty. This involves being responsible for ethical scholarship and for knowing what academic dishonesty is and how to avoid it.
A guide to Academic Integrity for students is available in PDF format for printing from the UTAS web site:
www.academicintegrity.utas.edu.au/docs/student_guide_to_academic_integrity.pdf
What is Plagiarism?
"Plagiarism is a form of cheating and therefore is academic dishonesty. It is taking and using someone el's thoughts, writings or inventions and reprenting them as your own; for example, using an author's words without putting them in quotation marks and citing the source, using an author's ideas without proper acknowledgment and citation, copying another student's work.
If you have any doubts about how to refer to the work of others in your assignments, plea consult your lecturer or tutor for relevant referencing guidelines, and the academic integrity resources on the web at www.academicintegrity.utas.edu.au/
The intentional copying of someone el’s work as one’s own is a rious offence punishable by penalties that may range from a fine or deduction/cancellation of marks and, in the most rious of cas, to exclusion from a unit, a cour or the University.
The University and any persons authorid by the University may submit your asssable works to a plagiarism checking rvice, to obtain a report on possible instances of plagiarism. Asssable works may also be included in a reference databa. It is a condition of this arrangement that the original author’s permission is required before a work within the databa can be viewed.
Assignment Cover Sheets
Students are required to submit a signed cover sheet with every assignment. This includes a declaration that all material submitted is their own work except where there is clear acknowledgement or reference to the work of others and that they have read the University statement on Academic Misconduct (Plagiarism) on the University website at
www.utas.edu.au/plagiarism or in the Student Orientation Handbook.
What is Academic Referencing?
Student writers need to back up their ideas, or tho they quote, by direct or indirect referral to and citation of the scholarly literature, works of art and inventions that they have ud. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism, a matter considered by the University of Tasmania a rious offence. Therefore, it is important that students understand how to correctly refer to the work of others, in order to avoid plagiarism.
This is done by following a method of citation (ie referencing) that is the preferred method for the discipline being studied.
The UTAS Faculty of Business requires that students reference their work using the Harvard Referencing style. You will be provided with a handout containing information about this style of referencing. The same information can also be found on the UTAS library website at
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STUDENTS MUST CHECK UNIT OUTLINES AND ASSESSMENT SHEETS FOR CONFIRMATION OF WHICH REFERENCING METHOD IS REQUIRED. IF YOU ARE UNSURE ASK YOUR HKUE LECTURER, AS FAILURE TO USE THE REQUIRED METHOD MAY RESULT IN A REDUCTION IN MARKS. Becau of the varied background of students admitted into its cours the University accepts that students may not have developed scholarly referencing skills before beginning their university study. It is therefore the responsibility of teaching staff to provide clear, unambiguous and educationally appropriate information about preferred citation methods to commencing students. It is also the responsibility of students to learn the craft of scholarly referencing and to accurately cite the work of others in their own assignments.
The basic requirements for scholarly referencing are:
When directly quoting from another author's work, the relevant passages must be indicated by the us
e of quotation marks, or another acceptable method eg indentation of the quoted passage;
The exact source and page numbers of the material directly quoted must be indicated by citation in the assignment text or by footnote (depending on the referencing method ud);
Complete bibliographic details must be provided in an alphabetical reference list attached to the back of the assignment.
An example using the author date system is offered below:
In a book titled The Prime Ministers of Australia (1990) Graham Fricke writes the following about Alfred Deakin
"He was, as his biographer has put it, the first, and probably the last prime minister of Australia to receive while in office a summons for riding a bicycle on the footpath" (La Nauze, 1965, p. 146)."
This comment relates to Alfred Deakin's unorthodox behaviour as a prime minister. Fricke came across this anecdote in his rearch about Deakin and wanted to u it in his own book. Fricke ud his own words but attributed the information to J.A. La Nauze the original author. Fricke's list of references at the back of his book would show the following entry. La Nauze. J.A., 1965, Alfred Deak
in Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
Further examples of correct referencing can be found at the University Library website Guide to Referencing (/referencing).
For more detailed information about scholarly referencing and plagiarism students are recommended to the following sources of information
∙Unit guides and outlines
∙The Guide to the prentation of assignments
∙Learning development workshops on scholarly referencing (refer to the Flexible Education Unit).
∙Learning development on-line referencing tutorials (refer to Flexible Education Unit).
Concerns about referencing and plagiarism can and should be directed in the first instance to your HKUE lecturers and tutors.
What is Academic Dishonesty?
Using words, ideas, computer code, or any work by someone el without giving proper credit is academic dishonesty. Academic dishonesty is often referred to as plagiarism.
Another person's work can be:
∙original ideas
∙strategies, and
∙rearch.
Copying another student's work is also a form of academic dishonesty or plagiarism, and any student who consciously allows his or her work to be copied is equally guilty of the offence.
It can also relate to the 'product' of tho original ideas, strategies and rearch. For example: ∙art
∙graphics
∙computer programs, and
∙other creative expression.
The work may consist of writing, charts, pictures, graphs, diagrams, data, websites or other communication or recording media. It may also include ntences, phras and innovative terminology (Spratt, 1983 p.438).
Material that you may refer to in your own work can come from many different sources. Sources include published works such as:
∙books
∙magazines
∙newspapers
∙websites
∙plays
∙movies
∙photos
∙paintings, and
∙textbooks.
The materials from unpublished work are also sources which should be acknowledged, they include
∙lectures
∙lecture notes
∙handouts
∙speeches
∙other students' papers, or
∙material from a rearch rvice.
