Any quotation from the published or unpublished works of other persons must therefore be clearly identified as such by being placed inside quotation marks, and all sources must be identified fully and accurately. A series of quotations from different sources, if not clearly identified as such, constitutes plagiarism as much as an unacknowledged long quotation from a single source. Equally, if you summarise or adopt someone else's ideas, judgements, figures, diagrams or software, appropriate reference must be made, and the work referred to included in the bibliography. If your source of information is the Internet, you must give the full address of the relevant site. Consult your Personal Tutor or a Course Tutor if in doubt.
Plagiarism is dishonest.
It constitutes intellectual theft, and is taken extremely seriously. As the assessment for the MA in Comparative Literature consists largely of essays, reports, take-home papers and a dissertation, all written in your own time, you will be required to sign a declaration for each part of the assessment that the work submitted is your own. Failure to observe the provisions of this policy constitutes an examination offence under the University Regulations.