Penalties and Plagiarism

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Within Standard English there are a number of
regional differences which tend to attract
attention. Standard Scottish English is by no
means exactly the same as Standard English
English, for example, and Standard American
English is in some ways even more different. The
differences include large numbers of well-known
vocabulary items, such as British lift, American
elevator. (Trudgill 2000 6)

• Within Standard English there are lots of
  obvious regional differences. Standard Scottish
  English is different from Standard English
  English, and Standard American English is even
  more different. Differences exist in vocabulary
  items like British lift vs. American elevator.

• Penalties and Plagiarism
• Kevin Watson

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Penalties and Plagiarism

• CWA penalties
• Plagiarism Penalties and implications
• Why plagiarism is daft, bizarre and a waste of
  your time

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CWA Deadlines

• Deadline day and time

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CWA Deadlines

• Deadline day and time
• All CWAs in the box are removed at the time of
  the deadline (usually 2pm or 4pm)
• Any work that arrives after that is given an
  automatic 10 mark penalty
• Unless its over a week late, when it receives a
  mark of zero

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What is plagiarism?

• Cheating
• the unacknowledged use of someone elses work,
  usually in coursework, and passing it off as if
  it were his/her own.

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What is plagiarism?

• collusion, where a piece of work prepared by a
  group is represented as if it were the students
  own
• duplication of the same or almost identical work
  for more than one module

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What is plagiarism?

• the act of copying or paraphrasing a paper from a
  source text, whether in manuscript, printed or
  electronic form, without appropriate
  acknowledgement
• submission of another students work, whether
  with or without that students knowledge or
  consent.

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Penalties

• First offence
• Major First Offence
• Second Offence
• Third/Fourth Offence
• Part One
• Part Two

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Penalties

• First Offence
• several sentences of direct copying without
  acknowledgement, poor referencing, inappropriate
  citations
• Plagiarised sections set aside and not marked

What you do
What happens to you
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Penalties

• First Major Offence
• Copying multiple paragraphs, copying all or much
  work from fellow student, submitting same work
  for 2 modules
• Repeat and resubmit work for maximum mark of a
  pass.
• Warning letter sent to you and kept on your file

What you do
What happens to you in Part One
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Penalties

• First Major Offence
• Copying multiple paragraphs, copying all or much
  work from fellow student, submitting same work
  for 2 modules
• Zero awarded. No reassessment.
• Warning letter sent to you and kept on your file

What you do
What happens to you in Part Two
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Penalties

• Second Offence
• several sentences of direct copying without
  acknowledgement, poor referencing, inappropriate
  citations
• Copying multiple paragraphs, copying all or much
  work from fellow student, submitting same work
  for 2 modules
• Zero awarded. No reassessment.
• Warning letter sent to you and kept on your file

What you do
What happens to you if first offence was in Part 1
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Penalties

• Second Offence
• several sentences of direct copying without
  acknowledgement, poor referencing, inappropriate
  citations
• Copying multiple paragraphs, copying all or much
  work from fellow student, submitting same work
  for 2 modules
• Standing Academic Committee
• Recorded on file

What you do
What happens to you if first offence was in Part 2
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Penalties

• Standing Academic Committee
• award zero for work in question
• award zero for whole coursework
• award zero for module
• Award zero and drop your degree by a class (2.i
  to 2.ii, 2.ii to 3)
• exclusion from University

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Why its stupid anyway

• Apart from the fact that
• it will have a significant impact on your mark
• It will go on your permanent record and could be
  divulged in references
• It could get you dropped a degree class
• or excluded from the University

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Why its stupid anyway

• Its ridiculously easy to spot
• The marker will have read the books
• And the marker will have marked lots of other
  essays too

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Why its stupid anyway
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Why its stupid anyway

• If youve found the sources anyway, it doesnt
  make any sense to get kicked off the course for
  your efforts. Just adding the reference will
  improve your mark

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Why its stupid anyway
Within Standard English there are a number of
regional differences which tend to attract
attention. Standard Scottish English is by no
means exactly the same as Standard English
English, for example, and Standard American
English is in some ways even more different. The
differences include large numbers of well-known
vocabulary items, such as British lift, American
elevator. (Trudgill 2000 6)

• Within Standard English there are lots of
  obvious regional differences. Standard Scottish
  English is different from Standard English
  English, and Standard American English is even
  more different. Differences exist in vocabulary
  items like British lift vs. American elevator.

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Why its stupid anyway
Within Standard English there are a number of
regional differences which tend to attract
attention. Standard Scottish English is by no
means exactly the same as Standard English
English, for example, and Standard American
English is in some ways even more different. The
differences include large numbers of well-known
vocabulary items, such as British lift, American
elevator. (Trudgill 2000 6)

• When discussing the different kinds of Standard
  English, Trudgill (2000) notes differences
  between Standard Scottish English, Standard
  American English and Standard English English. He
  states that the differences include large
  numbers of well-known vocabulary items, such as
  British lift, American elevator (Trudgill 2000
  6).

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Why its stupid anyway

• Essays with whole chunks from elsewhere are never
  any good anyway even if the plagiarised bits
  are ignored by the marker
• Copying from other sources makes it hard to end
  up with a coherent essay

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Why its stupid anyway

• Most of the effort is in finding suitable
  information
• Using it and referencing properly will get you
  good marks
• Using it and not acknowledging it will get you
  thrown out of University

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And thats why plagiarism doesnt make any sense
(Watson 2005)