This involves representing another person's ideas or work as your own. It may also include resubmitting your own work for another assessment item. These examples of plagiarism have been taken from the Policy Student Academic Integrity that you can download from Academic Integrity at Notre Dame:
Martin, B. (2004). Plagiarism: policy against cheating or policy for learning? Retrieved on April 1, 2020 from http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/04plag.pdf
Other forms of failing to undertake your studies with academic integrity, include:
Information in the above section adapted with permission from University of Leeds (UK).
The Guideline: Presentation and Submission of Research Theses in Section 4.1 requires all HDR candidates to submit their thesis to the University’s text-matching software, Turnitin, and share the resultant report with their supervisory team.
HDR candidates can access Turnitin through the Research Office Blackboard Community site (under My Communities on the left hand side of the Blackboard Welcome page). All HDR students should have access to this site via Blackboard, which can be accessed via the Current Students page.
Correct referencing can help you avoid plagiarism.
The two components to academic referencing are in-text citations and the reference list. See the Library’s instructional referencing guide.
Selection of a presentation format and referencing system should be made in consultation with the Supervisor and in line with the conventions of the discipline in which the student is writing. Preference should be given to the University-endorsed referencing styles.
In-text citations offer the reader a link to the original author’s work within the paragraph you are writing:
In-text numbered style: Nutrition during childhood and adolescence is essential for growth and development, health and well-being. [1,2] Further, eating behaviours established during childhood track into adulthood and contribute to long-term health and chronic disease risk. [3,4].
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In-text APA style: These young people arrive with identifiable forms of cultural capital which have not been recognised in previous educational settings. Some have musical abilities, some are involved with Hip-hop culture (Morrell & Duncan-Andrade, 2002), or Goth culture (Hodkinson, 2002), some have computer gaming abilities; some are members of sub-cultural groups such as BMX, Skate and Surf cultures.
(from this article)
The Reference List (or List of References) at the end of a written work should list every source cited in that work.
Only references cited within the body of the text should appear in the reference list. Omit from the final thesis any reference material that you read but did not cite. Your bibliographic management software will ensure that only in-text citations appear in your reference list.
A bibliography includes both cited works, and works read but not cited.
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Check with your supervisory team which referencing system you should use. For samples of in text referencing and reference lists used in your faculty you may view theses from other students in ResearchOnline@ND. Once you know which referencing style you will be using, make sure you record sufficient detail of each reference so that you avoid searching for them again. At this stage you should consider which bibliographic management tool you will use to keep track of your references (see Module 7.1 Bibliographic management). A HDR thesis commonly has hundreds of references, so some time spent at the beginning can save you many hours towards the end of your degree. |
