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
UWC Policy on Plagiarism
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.
