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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.

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

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.

Paraphrasing is when you use someone else's ideas and put them in your own words. Learn more about paraphrasing here.

Plagiarism, whether intentional or not, is considered a form of theft and fraud. Any time you use the ideas of others in your own work, you must ensure you are referencing them properly.

Plagiarism is the presentation of ideas, words or images without acknowledgment.

Academic integrity (Harvard). Plagiarism can be either deliberate, unintentional or sometimes due to poor referencing techniques. The following activity will test your knowledge and raise awareness...

Academic integrity (art & design). Plagiarism can be either deliberate, unintentional or sometimes due to poor referencing techniques. The following activity will test your knowledge of...

Academic integrity (nursing). Plagiarism can be either deliberate, unintentional or sometimes due to poor referencing techniques. Complete the following activity to test your knowledge of plagiarism.

Try this short quiz to test your understanding of some of the myths about plagiarism and academic integrity.

How to correctly use different referencing styles in academic writing to avoid plagiarism and get better marks.

Sharing group work for assessment tasks, group charter, key roles & responsibilities

Referencing is important because if students do not acknowledge the authors of their readings it is considered to be plagiarism, a form of cheating.

Turnitin is a plagiarism detection tool used by instructors to help them determine if you have referenced everything correctly, or if you might have plagiarised.

Why you must use references, the dangers of plagiarism, and different ways to use referencing.

RMIT uses a plagiarism detection tool called Turnitin for all written material. If you have plagiarised in your work, it will be detected.