Plagiarism is a serious academic offence and the consequences are severe.
The following guidelines should appear in all Programme Handbooks. Departments may wish to modify them slightly to suit their own circumstances and under paragraph 6 add examples of how entries should appear in a bibliography in their own subject area. Coursework, dissertations and essays submitted for assessment must be the student's own work, unless in the case of group projects a joint effort is expected and is indicated as such. 2. Unacknowledged direct copying from the work of another person, or the close paraphrasing of somebody else's work, is called plagiarism and is a serious offence, equated with cheating in examinations. This applies to copying both from other students' work and from published sources such as books, reports or journal articles.