Information Literacy Tutorial

Plagiarism in plain English:

• Using someone else’s work in your own academic work without giving proper credit.    

Intentional plagiarism:

• Copying a friend’s or classmate’s work
• Buying or borrowing papers
• Cutting and pasting blocks of text without providing documentation of the original source
• Borrowing images and other media without documentation of the original source
• Publishing work on the Web without the permission of the creator

Unintentional plagiarism:

• Careless paraphrasing
• Poor documentation of sources
• Quoting excessively
• Failure to use your own ideas or words

The UWC policy with regard to plagiarism - University Calendar, Rule A.5.1.8

• Academic Dishonesty reads "Academic dishonesty is a serious misconduct and will be dealt with in terms of the provisions of the University's Disciplinary Rules for Students. 
• Academic Dishonesty is not limited to plagiarism, cheating, collusion, but extends to all deceptions relating to academic work"
• The Software programme called "TurnItIn" is another strategy used by UWC to engage students in understanding how copying texts written by others is cheating.

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