Academic integrity
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Academic integrity
Academic integrity is an essential value in academic and professional environments. Representing other people’s ideas as your own is a breach of intellectual property, known as plagiarism.
Academic integrity
Learn more about what academic integrity is and why it is important.
Academic integrity
Academic integrity is an essential value in academic and professional environments. Representing other people’s ideas as your own is a breach of intellectual property, known as plagiarism.
Academic integrity
Why is it important? Academic integrity is an essential value in academic and professional environments. All publications are the intellectual property of the authors.
Academic integrity and preparing for exams
A few things you should know to maintain academic integrity when preparing for your exams.
Academic integrity for HDR students
As an RMIT graduate researcher, you should understand your rights and responsibilities regarding research integrity, ethics, intellectual property, copyright and authorship.
Academic integrity in group work
It is important to be conscious of academic integrity while working in a group. While breaches of academic integrity may be intentional or unintentional, the consequences can be extremely serious.
Academic integrity: Perspectives
This series of videos offers perspectives on academic integrity from academics and students.
Collusion
There is a clear distinction between collaboration and collusion when working on various forms of assignments.
Contract cheating
Contract cheating occurs when a student buys an assignment or has someone else write an assignment or sit an exam for them. This is cheating and is never acceptable.
Do I need to reference everything?
There are very clear rules around what needs to be referenced and what does not. Some things are not regarded as plagiarism, such as general knowledge, history and facts.
Exam misconduct
Exam misconduct occurs when a student attempts to cheat. this can take many forms
Further academic integrity resources
Resources and a checklist to help you learn more about academic integrity
Introduction to academic integrity
Knowledge of academic integrity will help you succeed in your studies, give you agency to express your own ideas and help you succeed by understanding when and how to acknowledge sources and how to...
Note sharing
There are specific rules around sharing notes and university materials, both with classmates and third parties.
Overview
APA referencing, an in-text referencing style. Where to include citations and how to provide full bibliographic details.
Paraphrasing: Harvard
Paraphrasing is when you rewrite ideas and information in your own words. In academic writing, paraphrasing helps to avoid plagiarism.
Paraphrasing: Nursing
Paraphrasing is when you rewrite ideas and information in your own words. In academic writing, paraphrasing helps to avoid plagiarism.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the presentation of ideas, words or images without acknowledgment.
Plagiarism
Academic integrity (Harvard). Plagiarism can be either deliberate, unintentional or sometimes due to poor referencing techniques. The following activity will test your knowledge and raise awareness...