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Academic Integrity: A Guide for Tertiary Students

This guide explores the importance of academic integrity in tertiary study, including honest work submission, repercussions of compromising integrity, referencing best practices, and resources for further learning.

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Academic Integrity: A Guide for Tertiary Students

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  1. Academic integrity An essential requirement in tertiary study

  2. WHAT IS ACADEMIC INTEGRITY? • Honestly and truthfully submitting work that is your own which clearly acknowledges the ideas, words, creations, images, etc of others. • Further information Academic Integrity at RMITwww.rmit.edu.au/academicintegrity Academic Integrity at RMIT for Studentswww.rmit.edu.au/academicintegrity/students

  3. WHAT COMPROMISES ACADEMIC INTEGRITY? Presenting work that fails to acknowledge other people’s work. This includes: • plagiarism - the presentation of another person’s work, ideas, or creations as if it is your own • cheating in an exam • copying or submitting whole or parts of computer files as if they are your own, eg webpages. For full outline see: RMIT assessment charter http://mams.rmit.edu.au/kh6a3ly2wi2h1.pdf

  4. REFERENCING & ACADEMIC INTEGRITY • Acknowledging the sources of your work is called referencing or citing. You mustacknowledge your sources in the body of your work and in a reference list at the end. • There are several different referencing styles used at RMIT. Check with your lecturer or course guides for the required style. Learn How to Reference from RMIT Library Website: • RMIT Library referencing guidelines http://www.rmit.edu.au/library/info-trek/referencing Other Useful Resources: • Referencing for RMIT Business Students ( Harvard)http://aps.eu.rmit.edu.au/lsu/resources/projects/referencing/index.html • How to avoid plagiarismhttp://aps.eu.rmit.edu.au/lsu/resources/projects/plagiarism/index.html • Paraphrasinghttp://aps.eu.rmit.edu.au/lsu/resources/projects/paraphrase/index.html

  5. REFERENCING FROM THE INTERNET You cannotcopy works (text, images, media etc) off the Internet withoutreferencingyour source. Australian law limits the academic use of Internet material to 10% of the content of the webpage and this must be referenced! • If you are using text, an image or other media from a webpage, you must reference the material. • Check with your lecturer or course guides for your course requirements.

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