Plagiarism

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• Health Check
• Update publications
• Compulsory session before any submissions
• test?
• plagiarism activities

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• Turnitin
• Beating Turnitin
• Arms Race
• of Work?
• Plagiarism is an academic decision

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• Student Co-operation
• must attend meeting
• action if unavoidably absent
• rights to advice and supporter
• no representation
• student must provide information immediately as
  required by department

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• Common Procedural mistakes
• marking up (incomplete)
• warning
• I know nothing
• entrapment
• intention
• all papers to the student including departments
  reasoned conclusion (to the Office)

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• Elephant traps
• group work
• collusion
• borrowed PCs
• memory sticks
• Full and complete investigation at Departmental
  level

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• Concurrent Offences
• First Offences addressed in department
• If one offence is aggravated both to the
  Committee
• Aggravated Offences
• Theft
• Deception e.g. falsifying references
• Malpractice

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Plagiarism

• Mitigation
• Principle not comparable with mitigation for
  under-performance
• Unlikely to affect guilt or innocence
• Can affect penalty

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Plagiarism

• Annex 3 of published procedures
• full list of penalties
• Departments can impose any penalty short of
  exclusion or delaying students progress
• Cases before the Committee mean that the
  students place is in question

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• Rule of thumb
• compare penalty with case of student who has
  failed honestly
• if no difference, then penalty is too light
• remember it is a penalty not action for a case of
  illness
• Factors for consideration
• scale of offence, relative to the piece of work
• seniority of the student
• source of material, e.g. essay mill, internet etc
• attempt at concealment
• mitigation and its relevance
• Advice from Office

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• Consistency
• record offences and penalties
• keep penalties simple
• bear in mind the students level of study
• remember longer term consequences for the student
  but retain consistency
• effect on Honours
• displacement of work, workload issues

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• Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA)
• identify cases at an early stage
• consistent and comprehensive checking process
• retrospective investigations permitted
• procedural irregularities fatal
• Change Procedures
• August sits Externals

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• Awards
• University forbids any award where plagiarism has
  not been purged (PVC and Committee on
  Applications)
• No knowingly plagiarised work can contribute to
  an award of the University
• Degrees can be revoked

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• Have a nice day!