1.1.4 Different forms

Click on the headings to learn more about the different forms of academic misconduct.

  • Plagiarism is taking another person's work and presenting it as your own.

    There are different forms of plagiarism and a few examples are:

    • Plagiarism of ideas - claiming credit for someone else's thoughts, ideas, designs, works or art, or inventions.
    • Word-for-word plagiarism - copying the exact expression of someone's writing or a very close approximation to it.
    • Plagiarism of sources - using another person's citations without acknowledging the source of the citations.
    • Plagiarism of authorship - claiming to be the author of an entire piece of work...fully or substantially authored by another. Translating an article from another language and publishing it under one's name, as if one had written it, is plagiarism of authorship but not word-for-word plagiarism.

    (Policy: Student Academic Integrity, 3.1)

    It is important that students familiarise themselves with the details of the Student Academic Integrity Policy. In addition to details regarding plagiarism, the Policy provides examples of the consequences related to the different levels of academic integrity violations.

  • Collusion is when one person intentionally collaborates with another person in a dishonest way.

    This is a more serious form of inappropriate collaboration with another student. While inappropriate collaboration may be accidental, collusion is a deliberate attempt to deceive.

    Some examples of collusion are:

    • writing or 'fixing up' an assignment for another person;
    • 'borrowing' or taking material from another person's assignment with their permission;
    • working on an assignment with another student and presenting it as your own work;
    • buying or selling assignments or parts of assignments online or in any other format.

  • Cheating of any form in examinations is regarded as serious academic misconduct.

    Some examples of cheating are:

    • sneaking notes or formulas or any information that might assist you in answering examination questions, into an exam, for example, on your mobile phone or written on your arm;
    • helping or getting help from another person during the exam;
    • copying from another student's exam paper;
    • getting someone else to sit the examination on your behalf using your student ID;
    • using a non-approved calculator or any other non-approved device.

  • Fabricating or falsifying data means to provide false and/or inaccurate information or citations in any piece of academic work. Refer to Policy: Student Academic Integrity, section 3.1.

    Misrepresenting data involves misusing data in any way. An example of misrepresenting data is presenting partial results or only evidence that support your idea or theory; selecting only the convenient data is misleading and dishonest.

    Inappropriately sourcing data involves using data that have been obtained dishonestly, illegally or unethically. Data that breach copyright, or that have been obtained unethically should not be used.

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