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. This applies to copying both from other students work and from published sources such as books, reports or journal articles. Failure to provide a source or put quotation marks around material that is taken from elsewhere gives the appearance that the comments are ostensibly one s own. A close paraphrase of another person s work must have an acknowledgement to the source.