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Academic integrity is an essential value in academic and professional environments. Representing other people’s ideas as your own is a breach of intellectual property, known as plagiarism.

Learn more about what academic integrity is and why it is important.

Academic integrity is an essential value in academic and professional environments. Representing other people’s ideas as your own is a breach of intellectual property, known as plagiarism.

Why is it important? Academic integrity is an essential value in academic and professional environments. All publications are the intellectual property of the authors.

A few things you should know to maintain academic integrity when preparing for your exams.

It is important to be conscious of academic integrity while working in a group. While breaches of academic integrity may be intentional or unintentional, the consequences can be extremely serious.

This series of videos offers perspectives on academic integrity from academics and students.

As a member of an academic community, it is important to understand and uphold the principles of academic integrity.

When working on assignments, it is important to distinguish between collaboration (working with others in an ethical way), and collusion (working in a group to complete an individual assignment).

There is a clear distinction between collaboration and collusion when working on various forms of assignments.

Contract cheating occurs when a student buys an assignment or has someone else write an assignment or sit an exam for them. This is cheating and is never acceptable.

There are very clear rules around what needs to be referenced and what does not. Some things are not regarded as plagiarism, such as general knowledge, history and facts.

Learn what is and is not acceptable when sitting university exams to ensure you are always acting with academic integrity.

Exam misconduct occurs when a student attempts to cheat. this can take many forms

Resources and a checklist to help you learn more about academic integrity

Ghostwriting, or contract cheating when done for pay, is a breach of academic integrity that involves having someone else complete an assessment on your behalf.

Each member of a group is responsible for the work produced, and breaches of academic integrity can result in consequences for the whole group.

Knowledge of academic integrity will help you succeed in your studies, give you agency to express your own ideas and help you succeed by understanding when and how to acknowledge sources and how to...

Paraphrasing is when you rewrite ideas and information in your own words. In academic writing, paraphrasing helps to avoid plagiarism.

Paraphrasing is when you rewrite ideas and information in your own words. In academic writing, paraphrasing helps to avoid plagiarism.