Plagiarism

Education at university is about learning, not just learning new facts from books and lectures, but developing academically as a person. This means you will learn to think critically about information, evaluating and synthesising it to fit your own understanding and creating your own new perspective on the material.

It is important therefore that you always differentiate between your own ideas and words and those which you have taken from other people - perhaps from a book, journal article or web page, or maybe from a friend or member of academic staff. Academic integrity is about being honest in your academic work. You need to understand the issues surrounding intellectual honesty, so that you can't be accused of cheating or plagiarism and can be proud of the work you produce.

There are some useful websites which will help you to understand more about what constitutes plagiarism and how you can avoid it: