As a learner in this course, you are expected to conform to UniSA's policies on academic integrity in issues related to the originality of your own work, citation and referencing conventions when the ideas contained in assessment submissions are not your own, and the related issue of plagiarism. When submitting work for assessment, your submission goes with tacit acknowledgement of the following statement:

I/We certify that the attached material is my/our original work. No other person's work has been used without due acknowledgement. Except where I/we have clearly stated that I/we have used some of this material elsewhere, it has not been presented by me/us for assessment in any other course or subject at this or any other institution In the case where any portion of the work has been submitted for assessment at this or any other institution, this must be negotiated with the course teaching staff prior to submission and explicitly acknowledged in writing within the piece of written assessment.

Academic integrity information

Referencing

Referencing is an essential academic skill.  It helps you link your assignment work to the original source material and develop strong, well supported academic writing.

Extensive Referencing support site

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is using another person's thoughts, words or arguments in an unacknowledged way, thus implying that they are your own. It is a form of intellectual dishonesty and can range from copying whole passages verbatim without acknowledging the source, to failing to indicate that a sentence or phrase is quoted. Paraphrasing without adequate citation, is also a form of plagiarism.

Plagiarism and how to avoid it

About Turnitin

Turnitin is a tool that identifies levels of similarity between your writing and other student assignments and published work.  You can also use it to check your work before submitting to identify unintended plagarism

Find out how to use Turnitin