When you create work at university, we want you to demonstrate your own thinking. It is equally important you acknowledge where you have used ideas and contributions from others. You may face an accusation of plagiarism if you do not make clear where you have used ideas that are not your own.

Plagiarism may take the form of direct copying and pasting from existing published sources, reproducing or paraphrasing ideas, sentences, drawings, graphs or other graphical material from printed matter, internet sites or any other source and submitting them for assessment without appropriate acknowledgement.

Plagiarism also includes using the work of another that has been written in one language and then translated into a different language and submitted under your name. Translation includes direct verbatim copying of translated material, copying and re-arranging material, as well as taking the ideas and findings of the material without attribution.

It is also an act of plagiarism to use paraphrasing software (such as Quillbot or Grammarly) to reword the work of others without clear attribution of the original source.

See the TurnItIn Plagiarism Spectrum for definitions of different kinds of plagiarism.