What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct. Plagiarism may be committed in a number of ways, including:
  • Copying another person's work or ideas. This includes copying from other students and from published or unpublished material such as books, internet sources, paper mills, computer code, designs or similar. 
  • Submitting work solicited from (or written by) others. 
  • Failing to adequately reference your sources. 

In addition, students should not reproduce any material submitted previously in another assessment. This is referred to as self-plagiarism.

The University defines Self Plagiarism as; 

"Submitting some, or all of the same work that you have already submitted for another assessment when this is not permitted"

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