Referencing and Plagiarism

If you do not acknowledge sources, you can be accused of plagiarism.

• Plagiarism is defined as ‘the use of intellectual material produced by another person without acknowledging its source.
• It is a form of cheating.
• It is taking someone else's ideas or academic works and presenting them as your own.
• These works or ideas could be in print or electronic format such as books, journals and including graphs, charts and images
• Plagiarism could be intentional or unintentional

Intentional

• Deliberately copy another person's work and pass it off as your own

Unintentional

• You don't know how to acknowledge the sources you have used in an appropriate academic manner. 
• Pleading ignorance is not acceptable.

• Using thoughts and ideas from a piece of work without crediting the original author.
• Directly copying a piece of work by another person.
• Copying text and changing the odd word or phrase without acknowledgement.
• Copying a diagram, image or photo from the Internet without reference to the source.
• Failing to use quotation marks when directly quoting someone else’s words.
• Buying assignments, sometimes known as "essay mills" or "contract cheating services".
• Buying research papers from the Internet.
• Referencing sources you did not use in your assignment.