6.4 Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the act of presenting other people's words, ideas and creations as your own work.  You are not presenting others words ideas and creations as your own if you acknowledge that they belong to others.  Plagiarism can happen intentionally or unintentionally and is probably the most common form of academic misconduct.

Plagiarism may take a number of forms, including:

using phrases or expressions by an author without acknowledgement

copying from Web sites, books, articles, newspapers, magazines, plays, movies and speeches

copying art work, photos, graphs, diagrams and music

copying from another student

using or developing ideas from another person's work

failing to use quotation marks

failing to summarise or paraphrase properly

failure to reference properly

Collusion - described in the Anglia Ruskin University student handbook as occurring when "two or more indviduals collaborate to produce a piece of work to be submitted (in whole or in part) for assessment and the work is presented as the work of one student alone".

Anglia Ruskin University policy on plagiarism

Plagiarism is cheating and is regarded as grounds for failure, suspension and expulsion. Anglia Ruskin University students should familiarise themselves with the document Academic Guidance:Being honest in your work. http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/students/pdfs/300310_academic_honesty.pdf