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Promoting study skills and good academic practice
Professor Graham Virgo
Faculty of Law and Senior Tutor, Downing College
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The need to promote study skills
• The gap between school and university
• The ‘only one correct result’ mentality
• The library as a new experience
• Reliance on the Internet
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Responsibility for promoting study skills
• Faculties and Departments - teaching members and Librarians• Colleges
- Senior Tutors - Tutors
- Directors of Studies- supervisors
- Librarians
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What are study skills?
• Reading
• Note-taking
• Writing
• Research
• Thinking: analysis and criticism
• Time management
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Good academic practice
• Plagiarism is defined as ‘submitting as one own’s work that which derives in part or in its entirety from the work of others without due acknowledgement’.
• 49% of respondents to a Varsity survey admitted plagiarism
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Examples of plagiarism
• Quoting verbatim
• Paraphrasing another’s work without due acknowledgement
• Using ideas taken from another
• Cutting and pasting from the Internet
• Submitting someone else’s work as your own
• Collusion
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Developing good academic practice
• Effective induction
• Supporting students under pressure
• Advising about use of web-based sources
• Designing plagiarism out of the system
• Paper mills and essay banks
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Consequences of plagiarism
• Reporting plagiarism and suspected plagiarism
• Academic integrity and references
• Disciplinary implications:
(i) Examination marks and awards
(ii) University’s Courts