You are expected to achieve the same high intellectual standards as in any of the other subjects in your course. Some information is given here, full details will be in the Subject Guide. Work submitted for assessment should be the original work of the student and should not have been submitted for assessment in any other subject at RMIT or elsewhere. Under RMIT Student Discipline Regulations, cheating or attempts to cheat must be referred to the Discipline Board. If the Board finds that a student has cheated or attempted to cheat, it may cancel all or any of the student's results.
Plagiarism is treated as a form of cheating.
In all written work, including journal work, assignments and projects, you should refer to your sources of information by indicating references within the body of your writing and by fully describing them in a standard form. This must be done whenever quoting another person's actual words, using another person's ideas or opinions, and reproducing facts, statistics or diagrams unless the information is considered common knowledge. Any piece of work for assessment submitted more than one week after the end of teaching, for which the student has not received a suitable extension, should not be accepted. Work up to one week late, without an extension granted by the lecturer or grounds for special consideration, should incur a late penalty of 5 per cent per working day of the total possible marks for the piece of work. Contribution to class discussions and activities Marks will not be given for attendance but will be awarded for participation.