Let's look at plagiarism and how to avoid it

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Plagiarism is defined in the Unitec Student Disciplinary Statute as using others’ ideas or work and presenting these as one’s own without acknowledgement of the source. This may include but is not limited to:

 i) copying or using any sentences, paragraphs, computer files or codes, multimedia, research data, creative products or website data that are the work of others without appropriate acknowledgement;

 ii) closely paraphrasing sentences, paragraphs or themes of others without appropriate acknowledgement; 

iii) using, summarising or extracting another person's concepts, experimental results, or conclusions without appropriate acknowledgement; 

iv) submitting material obtained from internet-based essay depositories or similar sources;

v) use of others, paid or not, to research, write or present any material submitted for assessment; 

vi) submitting one’s own previously assessed or published work for assessment or publication elsewhere, without appropriate acknowledgement and/or approval (selfplagiarism).


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