University Regulation Regarding Plagiarism
Plagiarism is not permitted. This refers both to re-using any material including your own without appropriate attribution / referencing and to re-using previsouly assessed material in later assessments. For example, you may not pull material directly out of your Master's dissertation and re-use this in your PhD thesis. There are nuances to this as with anything - you may re-use short sections of material if it is properly acknowledged. 'Short sections' may be a matter of opinion and depend as much on the nature of the work itself as on the actual length of the excerpt.
Students should refer to the Unveristy Regulations Plagiarism & Academic Integrity Code for more information, which contains the University's Plagiarism Statement. Specifically:
Plagiarism is defined as the submission or presentation of work, in any form, which is not one's own, without proper acknowledgement of the source(s). There does not need to be any deliberate attempt to deceive. Plagiarism can take several forms:
- a direct quotation but without quotation marks and full referencing;
- a close paraphrase, including wording within the same sentence and paragraph structures as the source;
- an unacknowledged summary of a source, including a summary produced by generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI);
- direct copying, translation or transcription.
If information or ideas are obtained from any source (including GenAI), those sources must be acknowledged according to the appropriate convention in that subject, and any direct quotation must be placed in quotation marks and the source and page number cited immediately beside the quote. Any failure to acknowledge adequately or to cite properly other sources in submitted work is plagiarism. In examinations, material learnt by rote, or close paraphrase, will be expected to follow the usual citation rules otherwise it will be considered as plagiarism. Schools should provide guidance on other appropriate use of references in examinations.