Report Writing and Presentation (RWP) Report Writing and Presentation Skills (RWPS) Procedures ALL students must

t upload the final copy of their written report to Safe Assignment. After they have done so, they must print the page indicating the result from the software and attach it to their written report. Lecturers will apply the following penalties when students plagiarise. Penalties for plagiarism for written report (from published source or group members report) Extent of plagiarism Penalty Minor Deduct up to 10 marks Slips in the citing (in-text or citation in the reference from the overall mark section) of secondary source of substantive awarded concepts (definitions, visuals, laws, statutes etc). A few sentences closely paraphrased or copied without quotation marks but with in-text citation and citation in the reference section. Moderate Deduct up to 40 marks Short passages (less than 50% of the report as and student may fail the indicated by the result derived from Safe written report Assignment) copied or closely paraphrased without citation. Extensive copying with attempts at paraphrasing another students work. Major Extended passages (more than 50% of the report as Award 0 for the written report indicated by the result derived from Safe Assignment) intentionally copied or closely paraphrased without citation. Extensive copying without paraphrasing another students report. Serious Award 0 for the written Report is almost entirely copied or closely report and disciplinary paraphrased from a SINGLE published source or action will be taken another students report. against him/her. Penalty for the lender The student who lends his/her report will only receive 50% of the overall mark awarded. Adapted from: School of Social Sciences, 2007. Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty [online]. UK: University of Dundee. Available from: http://dundee.ac.uk/geography/current/undergrad/plagiarism.htm [Accessed 10 September 2007].

Penalties for plagiarism (13 April 2009)