Plagiarism
Plagiarism
What is Plagiarism?
The Department of Information Systems considers
plagiarism to be the deliberate passing off of another persons work as
ones own, the quotation of another's writing without quotation marks or its
paraphrasing without full attribution and acknowledgement, and will NOT
be tolerated.
Since so much of the course mark is awarded for work
done outside of our direct control, a great deal of trust is involved. We
therefore view plagiarism in the same way as we do cheating in examinations.
Similar rules apply to all student work such as projects, essays and other
assignments.
Some examples of what we would consider to be
plagiarism are:
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You downloaded material from the Internet and submitted it as your own
work
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You downloaded material from the Internet and copied whole paragraphs or
pages of text into your assignment, but
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You edited them slightly so they fitted in. You might have written other
parts of the assignment yourself, but chunks of it are made up of copied
material.
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You found a few articles or books that really say everything you need.
You designed the structure of the assignment yourself and wrote quite a
bit of it. But one or two sections are almost word-for-word from the
articles or books you used. You did this because they said things in a
way you felt you could not improve upon.
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You acquired assignments from previous years students and used them in
the manner described above.
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You re-used material you had previously submitted without permission.
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Someone else wrote all (or part of) the assignment or project for you,
either as a favour or for some kind of reward.
How will Plagiarism be detected?
Students are required to submit a signed copy of
the following declaration.
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Declaration
1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism
is to use another’s work and pretend that it is one’s own.
2. I have used the ....................
convention for citation and referencing. Each contribution to, and
quotation in, this essay/report/project/............... from the
work(s) of other people has been attributed, and has been cited and
referenced.
3. This
essay/report/project/.................. is my own work.
4. I have not allowed, and will not allow,
anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his
or her own work.
5. I acknowledge that copying someone else’s
assignment or essay, or part of it, is wrong, and declare that this
is my own work.
Signature:.................................... Date
........./.........../..........
Full Name of Student(s):
.................................................................................
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Students submit work directly to Turnitin. Turnitin
will rate the amount of plagiarism detected in the work.
The Departmental policy is at
http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/InformationSystems/Plagiarism/
The Senate policy is at
http://www.uct.ac.za/about/policies/
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