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Plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating

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This topic will:

define plagiarism

examine different types of plagiarism, including collusion and contract cheating.

This module will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

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Introduction

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Watch the video below for an introduction to plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating

Video script:

Refer to Appendix A.

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What is plagiarism?

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What do you think?

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Plagiarism is… (select all the correct answers):

Answer options (for answers refer to Appendix A):

1. Copying and pasting information without any acknowledgement of the original author.

2. Work with some missing or incomplete references, so the original sources can’t be found.

3. Replacing a few pieces of information in a copied piece of work, to make it look like something new (but without actually being original).

4. Reusing work that has been submitted before.

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Types of plagiarism

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Although plagiarism can be defined simply, it is not one thing. www.monash.edu/library

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Click each of the headings to learn more about a few different forms of plagiarism.

Button headings (when each button is clicked the following appears):

1. Copying

The most obvious form of plagiarism is copying. At the extreme end, copying means literally using the same words as an original text, or the same image, code or music score, then not acknowledging your source with a citation. When most people think of plagiarism, they think of copying somebody else’s words or work without admitting where those words came from.

2. Inappropriate paraphrasing

Direct copying is only one type of plagiarism. Inappropriate paraphrasing can also constitute plagiarism. For example, maybe you have taken an original text and changed some of the words in the sentence to other words with similar meanings. Even if you provide a citation, it may still be considered plagiarism if it is too similar to the original.

3. Inappropriate or dishonest citation

Maybe you have rewritten an author’s ideas to express them in your own words. This kind of paraphrasing can be completely appropriate - but only if you acknowledge the original source of information you have paraphrased.

How can you acknowledge your sources and avoid plagiarism? By providing an accurate reference whenever you have used information or ideas from another author; and, when quoting text directly, by placing that text in quotation marks.

Make sure you have actually read and understood all of the sources you cite, as an inappropriate or dishonest citation can be just as bad as a lack of citations.

4. Self-plagiarism

These rules don’t just apply when you use information from other authors. They also apply to your own work. When you copy or re-use your own work without acknowledgement, you commit self-plagiarism.

Make sure you don’t reuse your work in different assignments and units without permission from your unit coordinator. A fresh perspective, informed by what you've learnt from your previous work, is always preferred.

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Identifying plagiarism

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Plagiarism in practice can take many forms.

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Read each scenario and identify which involve plagiarism and which do not.

Scenarios (for answers and feedback refer to Appendix A):

1. Hamid writes a paragraph in an assignment based on ideas in a journal article that he has read. He does not cite the article in the paragraph or include the journal article in his reference list.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

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2. Una takes a paragraph of text from an online book and mixes the order of the words around to make it sound different for her assignment. She adds the online book to her reference list.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

3. Sara can’t find a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for a journal article that she’s citing, so she inserts the URL of the article in her reference instead.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

4. Zayn can’t remember where he got a really great quote from, so he lists a different article by the same authors as the source of the quote.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

5. Peter needs to deliver a presentation for a unit. He remembered that he did a presentation on a similar topic for another unit last year, so he used his old presentation, changed a few sentences and images and submitted it.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

6. Mei Ling is unable to find a date of a photograph that she’s citing, so she writes “n.d.” (no date) in the body of her report and her reference list.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

7. Pham wants to cite two whole sentences from a book. He puts the two sentences in quotation marks in the body of his essay, adds an in-text citation for the book after the quote, and adds the book to his reference list.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

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What does collusion look like?

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Collaboration is a valuable academic and professional skill. If you can work effectively in teams, you will thrive at university and in the workforce. However, some forms of collaboration are considered unethical. Monash University, like other Australian universities, calls unethical collaboration ‘collusion’. Where do we draw the line between positive collaboration and unethical collusion?

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Watch the following interactive video and answer the questions as you go to learn more about collusion.

Video script and questions:

Refer to Appendix A.

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What is contract cheating?

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Contract cheating involves submitting the work of others as your own work for assessment.

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Click the headings to learn more about contract cheating.

Button headings (when each button is clicked the following appears):

1. What is contract cheating?

DefinitionContract cheating involves both plagiarism and collusion as the actual author of the work is not properly acknowledged, and there is unauthorised collaboration.

Specifically, it includes:

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paying a person or a company to write some or all of your assignment for you

asking another student, friend or family member to complete your assessment tasks

asking another person take a quiz or an examination for you.

Contract cheating may or may not involve paying the person to do the work (Bretag et al., 2018).

2. Why do people engage in contract cheating?

When students lack confidence to approach an assignment, feel that they don’t have enough time, or simply don’t want to complete the work, they may be tempted to engage in contract cheating.

3. What are the impacts of contract cheating?

In addition to being a breach of ethics and the risk of serious penalties, contract cheating also prevents you from learning. This may look like a short-cut through university, but will leave you poorly equipped to survive and succeed at university and in the professional workforce.

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Check your understanding

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Now that you know more about academic integrity, test your knowledge of the topic with the next few questions. These questions are not scored and are for your own learning.

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Click Start Quiz to begin.

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Question 1 of 5: Identify academic misconduct

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Read the two scenarios below and then select the correct statement.

Scenarios:

1. Scenario 1

Melissa is struggling to finish a report for one of her biology units. Her friend suggests that she use an assignment help website called “Instant HD assignments” to help her. Feeling under pressure, Melissa decides to try the website’s service and pays $50 to have her report written for her.

2. Scenario 2

Iman, another student in Melissa’s cohort, is also struggling with the report. Luckily, Iman’s mum is a scientist. Feeling sorry for Iman, his mum decides to write the report for Iman to help him out.

Answer options (for answers, refer to Appendix A):

1. Only Melissa has committed academic misconduct.

2. Only Iman has committed academic misconduct.

3. Neither Melissa or Iman have committed academic misconduct.

4. Both Melissa and Iman have committed academic misconduct.

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Question 2 of 5: Identify academic misconduct

Question:

If Iman’s mum writing his report is plagiarism, has he committed academic misconduct in the scenarios below?

Scenarios and answer options (for answers, refer to Appendix A):

1. Scenario 3

Iman's mum proofreads his assignment. She points out a series of spelling errors and suggests adding a topic sentence. Iman makes these changes.

Yes/No.

2. Scenario 4

Iman's mum says that she thinks he should think about biotechnology and maybe do some additional research about it to see if it would add to his understanding of the topic. Iman finds some journal articles which give him some new ideas which he uses to flesh out his argument.

Yes/No.

3. Scenario 5

Iman's mum says that she thinks he should write about biotechnology and shares a journal article that she found interesting, in which she has highlighted some passages that she thinks Iman should pay attention to. Iman reads the article and adds a few paragraphs about bio- technology, focusing on the ideas that his mum highlighted.

Yes/No.

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Question 3.1 of 5: Determine academic misconduct

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Read the scenario below and then answer the questions that follow.

Scenario:

Mervyn is living in a sharehouse with other students who are studying at different levels in the same course. He has an assignment due next week and asks for help from his housemates, Casey and Wati. They previously completed the same subject last semester. Casey decides to share his lecture notes and help tutor Mervyn. Wati decides to share her completed assignments for that semester with Mervyn and gives him permission to copy and paste some parts.

Question:

Mervyn asking his housemates for help is academic misconduct.

Answer options (for answers, refer to Appendix A):

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1. True

2. False

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Question 3.2 of 5: Determine academic misconduct

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Read the scenario below and then answer the questions that follow.

Scenario:

Mervyn is living in a sharehouse with other students who are studying at different levels in the same course. He has an assignment due next week and asks for help from his housemates, Casey and Wati. They previously completed the same subject last semester. Casey decides to share his lecture notes and help tutor Mervyn. Wati decides to share her completed assignments for that semester with Mervyn and gives him permission to copy and paste some parts.

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Casey sharing his lecture notes with Mervyn is academic misconduct.

Answer options (for answers, refer to Appendix A):

1. True

2. False

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Question 3.3 of 5: Determine academic misconduct

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Read the scenario below and then answer the questions that follow.

Scenario:

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Mervyn is living in a sharehouse with other students who are studying at different levels in the same course. He has an assignment due next week and asks for help from his housemates, Casey and Wati. They previously completed the same subject last semester. Casey decides to share his lecture notes and help tutor Mervyn. Wati decides to share her completed assignments for that semester with Mervyn and gives him permission to copy and paste some parts.

Question:

Casey tutoring Mervyn is academic misconduct.

Answer options (for answers, refer to Appendix A):

1. True

2. False

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Question 3.4 of 5: Determine academic misconduct

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Read the scenario below and then answer the questions that follow.

Scenario:

Mervyn is living in a sharehouse with other students who are studying at different levels in the same course. He has an assignment due next week and asks for help from his housemates, Casey and Wati. They previously completed the same subject last semester. Casey decides to share his lecture notes and help tutor Mervyn. Wati decides to share her completed assignments for that semester with Mervyn and gives him permission to copy and paste some parts.

Question:

Wait sharing her assignments with Mervyn is academic misconduct.

Answer options (for answers, refer to Appendix A):

1. True

2. False

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Question 3.5 of 5: Determine academic misconduct

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Read the scenario below and then answer the questions that follow.

Scenario:

Mervyn is living in a sharehouse with other students who are studying at different levels in the same course. He has an assignment due next week and asks for help from his housemates, Casey and Wati. They previously completed the same subject last semester. Casey decides to share his lecture notes and help tutor Mervyn. Wati decides to share her completed assignments for that semester with Mervyn and gives him permission to copy and paste some parts.

Question:

Wati giving Mervyn permission to copy her assignment is academic misconduct.

Answer options (for answers, refer to Appendix A):

1. True

2. False

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Question 4 of 5: Definition of collusion

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Choose the best definition of collusion.

Answer options (for answers, refer to Appendix A):

1. Using another person's ideas as your own by failing to give appropriate acknowledgment.

2. Paying a person or a company to write some or all of your assignment for you, or asking another student, friend or family member to complete your assessment tasks.

3. Unauthorised collaboration on assessable work (such as an essay, oral presentation or report) with other people from within or outside the University.

4. Submitting work that has already been assessed in another unit.

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Question 5 of 5: Plagiarism

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Which of the following scenarios do you think involves plagiarism? Select all the correct answers.

Answer options (for answers, refer to Appendix A):

1. Copying and pasting information without any acknowledgement of the original author.

2. Replacing a few pieces of information in a copied piece of work to make it seem like something new.

3. Citing an idea from another author and expressing it in your own words.

4. Quoting the words from a YouTube video and providing the citation and full reference at the end of the assignment.

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Summary

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Here is a summary of what you have learned in this module:

Plagiarism is using another person’s ideas without giving due credit

Plagiarism can include copying, inappropriate paraphrasing, dishonest citations, and self-plagiarism

Collaboration is an invaluable tool, but doing so unethically is collusion

Engaging in contract cheating is both plagiarism and collusion

Using another person’s ideas unintentionally still constitutes a breach of academic integrity.

To go through any of the strategies again, navigate through the menu by clicking the link in the top right corner.

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There is a Start again button to retry the module and a Go back home button that leads to the homepage of the tutorial.

There are two images that will take you to the What is academic integrity? as well Putting academic integrity into practice modules when clicked.

There is a Resources section containing two links.

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End of module

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Well done for completing this module on academic integrity.

If you haven’t done so already, view the other modules or explore more resources by selecting the links provided.

Resources

Further resources

Citing and referencing

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View the other modules

What is academic integrity?

Putting academic integrity into practice

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Appendix A

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Sue Elliot (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Education))

At Monash we're going to ask you to work in teams and to learn from each other and from some great educators and academics.

What we need you to do in doing that is to demonstrate your knowledge and your ideas and to not unintentionally use other people's ideas as your own.

There are some simple rules to follow to make sure that you don't make mistakes in this area.

It's not hard but it's really important. We want to know what you know, what you think.

So listen to this, engage with the material and I'm sure you're gonna do very well.

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Questions:

1. Copying and pasting information without any acknowledgement of the original author.

2. Work with some missing or incomplete references, so the original sources can’t be found.

3. Replacing a few pieces of information in a copied piece of work, to make it look like something new (but without actually being original).

4. Reusing work that has been submitted before.

If all four answers are selected:

Feedback: Correct. All of these options are types of plagiarism.

Plagiarism means “to take and use another person’s ideas and or manner of expressing them and to pass them off as your own (pretend they are your own) by failing to give appropriate acknowledgement.” (Monash University, 2018, para. 8)

If all answers are not selected:

Feedback: Great! But are there more?

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Paragraph sections:

Scenarios (for answers refer to appendix A):

1. Hamid writes a paragraph in an assignment based on ideas in a journal article that he has read. He does not cite the article in the paragraph or include the journal article in his reference list.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

Correct answer: Plagiarism.

Feedback: Correct. Hamid has used the ideas of published authors without acknowledging them with an in text citation and a full reference at the end of his assignment.

2. Una takes a paragraph of text from an online book and mixes the order of the words around to make it sound different for her assignment. She adds the online book to her reference list.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

Correct answer: Plagiarism.

Feedback: Correct. Moving some words around is not sufficient for university assignments. Paraphrasing involves rethinking and substantially changing what is written while maintaining the same meaning. Consult the ‘Paraphrasing, summarising, and quoting’ RLO page to learn more.

3. Sara can’t find a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for a journal article that she’s citing, so she inserts the URL of the article in her reference instead.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

Correct answer: Not plagiarism.

Feedback: Correct. A DOI should be used if it is available. However, some recent electronic journal articles do not have a DOI, but instead use a permanent URL.

4. Zayn can’t remember where he got a really great quote from, so he lists a different article by the same authors as the source of the quote.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

Correct answer: Plagiarism.

Feedback: Correct. Unless the authors use the exact same words again in the article Zayn uses, this is dishonest and unprofessional.

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5. Peter needs to deliver a presentation for a unit. He remembered that he did a presentation on a similar topic for another unit last year, so he used his old presentation, changed a few sentences and images and submitted it.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

Correct answer: Plagiarism.

Feedback: Correct. This is an example of self-plagiarism. Assignment cover sheets will usually ask if you have submitted any part of your assignment before – Peter needs to avoid this or he may face serious penalties.

6. Mei Ling is unable to find a date of a photograph that she’s citing, so she writes “n.d.” (no date) in the body of her report and her reference list.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

Correct answer: Not plagiarism.

Feedback: Correct. This is an acceptable way to indicate that there is no clear date of publication. Mei Ling should check the Library Guide for citing and referencing in her Faculty's style to make sure she is doing this correctly.

7. Pham wants to cite two whole sentences from a book. He puts the two sentences in quotation marks in the body of his essay, adds an in-text citation for the book after the quote, and adds the book to his reference list.

Plagiarism or not plagiarism?

Correct answer: Not plagiarism.

Feedback: Correct. This is actually acceptable in certain citing and referencing styles. Pham should check the Library Guide for citing and referencing in his Faculty's style to make sure he is doing this correctly.

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Video script (with questions):

Narrators (male and female)

Male narrator: Hi there.

Female narrator: Hello. Different faculties and academic disciplines can have different ideas of what collusion is. It’s not just about written assignments. Take Information Technology for example. What do you think about some students sharing programming code and then submitting this as individual work?

Is this collusion?

Click Yes or No to choose. (Question 1)

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Male narrator: What do you think about working together in the creative arts on a design? One of the students in a group submits an individual assessment task with content including ideas from group members without acknowledging the work of the group.

Is this collusion?

Click Yes or No to choose. (Question 2)

Female narrator: What about letting another student that’s struggling with their assignment see your answers to a quiz?

Is this collusion?

Click Yes or No to choose. (Question 3)

Male narrator: One way to distinguish collaboration from collusion is to examine how your work is being assessed. Are you being assessed as a group, or as an individual? Whenever you are being assessed as an individual, the university expects you to submit work that is your own.

Female narrator: You are asked to collaborate as a group, then submit the assessment task individually.

Is the work you submit after discussing the topic with your teammates considered a case of collusion?

Click Yes or No to choose. (Question 4)

Male narrator: Expectations can differ across tasks and faculties, so read your assessment instructions carefully. Your unit coordinator can clarify what work you must do yourself as an individual, and what you are expected to collaborate on with your team. If you’re unsure where to draw the line, check with your lecturer, tutor or demonstrator.

Answers:

Question 1: Some students share programming code and then submit it as individual work. Is this collusion?

Correct answer: Yes.

Feedback: Collusion does not only apply to text. Code, visual materials, in fact any assignment work can involve collusion if you collaborate with others when it is not authorised in the assignment instructions.

Question 2: One of the students in a group submits an individual assessment task with content including ideas from group members without acknowledging the work of the group. Is this collusion?

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Feedback: The University's definition states that "collusion occurs when you present group work as your own" (Monash University, 2018, para. 8).

Question 3: What about letting another student that’s struggling with their assignment see your answers to a quiz? Is this collusion? Are these actions considered collusion?

Correct answer: Yes.

Feedback: These actions are considered collusion. If you or your friends are struggling with academic work, help is available.

Question 4: You are asked to collaborate as a group, then submit the assessment task individually. Is this collusion?

Correct answer: No.

Feedback: In these cases, it may be considered acceptable to collaborate on the group project up until the point of producing the written, submitted assignment. For example, it might be okay to discuss the problem and gather data with your group, but each group member must write up their own report based on their shared findings.

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Question: Read the two scenarios below and then select the correct statement.

Correct answer:

Both Melissa and Iman have committed academic misconduct.

Feedback: Correct. Both Melissa and Iman’s actions are considered breaches of academic integrity, as they are cases of contract cheating. Contract cheating is “…where a student gets someone – a third party – to complete an assignment or an exam for them. This third party might be a friend, family member, fellow student or staff member ... It might be a pre-written assignment which has been obtained from an assignment ‘mill’. The third party may also be a paid service, advertised locally or online” (Bretag et al., 2018, p. 2).

Incorrect answers:

Only Melissa has committed academic misconduct.

Only Iman has committed academic misconduct.

Neither Melissa or Iman have committed academic misconduct.

Feedback: Incorrect. Both Melissa and Iman’s actions are considered breaches of academic integrity, as they are cases of contract cheating. See the correct statement for a definition.

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Question: If Iman's mum writing his report is plagiarism, has he committed academic misconduct in the scenarios below?

Correct answers

Scenario 3

Correct answer: No.

Feedback: Correct. Iman's mum has only helped him with the structure of his assignment, not the content. Because she has not contributed intellectually to his assignment, this is not considered academic misconduct.

Scenario 4

Correct answer: No.

Feedback: Correct. Iman's mum has made some suggestions about ideas that he could pursue, but it was up to Iman to do the research himself and decide whether or not to include the material in his final report. Therefore she has not contributed intellectually to it, and he has not committed academic misconduct.

Scenario 5

Correct answer: Yes.

Feedback: Correct. In this scenario, Iman's mum has contributed intellectually to his assignment by providing Iman with research that she has done, and ideas that she has identified as important. Therefore, Iman has committed academic misconduct in passing some of her work off as his own.

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Question: Mervyn asking his housemates for help is academic misconduct.

Correct answer: False.

Feedback: Correct. This is not necessarily wrong if Casey and Wati help Mervyn with understanding concepts from the unit materials or if they help Mervyn clarify his assignment question. However, they should not help Mervyn to create his assignment for him in any way. Mervyn needs to be able to understand the concepts and questions and write the assignment himself to benefit from this learning opportunity and undertake his studies with integrity.

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Question: Casey sharing his lecture notes with Mervyn is academic misconduct.

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Feedback: Correct. Sharing lecture notes is not necessarily a breach of academic integrity if Casey is helping Mervyn better understand the learning materials. However, he should not help Mervyn to create his assignment for him in any way. Mervyn needs to be able to understand the concepts and questions and write the assignment himself to benefit from this learning opportunity and undertake his studies with integrity.

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Question: Casey tutoring Mervyn is academic misconduct.

Correct answer: False.

Feedback: Correct. Tutoring another student is not necessarily a breach of academic integrity if Casey is helping Mervyn better understand the learning materials. Again, he should not help Mervyn to create his assignment for him in any way. Mervyn needs to be able to understand the concepts and questions and write the assignment himself to benefit from this learning opportunity and undertake his studies with integrity.

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Question: Wati sharing her assignments with Mervyn is academic misconduct.

Correct answer: True.

Feedback: Correct. Sharing of assignments is a potential breach of the academic integrity policy. By sharing her assignment with Mervyn, Wati may have enabled Mervyn to copy her academic work. Mervyn has also missed a valuable learning opportunity.

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Question: Wati giving Mervyn permission to copy her assignment is academic misconduct.

Correct answer: True.

Feedback: Correct. Copying of another person’s work (with or without permission) is a clear breach of the academic integrity policy. By copying Wati’s assignment, Mervyn has falsified academic work. He has also missed a valuable learning opportunity.

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Question: Choose the best definition of collusion.

Correct answer: Unauthorised collaboration on assessable work (such as an essay, oral presentation or report) with other people from within or outside the University.

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Feedback: Correct. The definitions here are all forms of academic misconduct which are unacceptable, however collusion specifically refers to unauthorised collaboration. Working together with others at university is an important part of your learning journey, but remember that you must always submit your own work unless otherwise instructed by your lecturers.

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Question: Which of the following scenarios do you think involves plagiarism? Select all the correct answers.

Correct answers:

Copying and pasting information without any acknowledgement of the original author.

Feedback: Correct. Copying without acknowledging the source is a type of plagiarism.

Replacing a few pieces of information in a copied piece of work to make it seem like something new.

Feedback: Correct. If someone else’s ideas are used, it is ethical and necessary to cite and reference where those ideas came from.

Incorrect answers:

Citing an idea from another author and expressing it in your own words.

Feedback: Incorrect. Citing other authors is not plagiarism, as long as you reference them correctly and you express your understanding of your cited information sources in your own words.

Quoting the words from a YouTube video and providing the citation and full reference at the end of the assignment.

Feedback: Incorrect. This is actually good citing and referencing practice.

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Appendix B

References

Bretag, T., Harper, R., Burton, M., Ellis, C., Newton, P., Rozenberg, P., Saddiqui, S., & van Haeringen, K. (2018). Contract cheating: a survey of Australian university students. Studies in Higher Education, 1-20. doi:10.1080/03075079.2018.1462788

Monash University. (2013). The Monash Academic Integrity Policy. Retrieved from https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/801841/Student-Academic-Integrity-Policy.pdf

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