* What is academic integrity? * What is plagiarism? * How do I avoid plagiarism? * What is referencing? * Why should I reference? -- -- Students working together where this is not permitted, with the intention of gaining an unfair advantage or cheating in the preparation of coursework. A form of plagiarism. See also collaboration. Common knowledge -- -- * exam techniques (eg preparation, timing, etc). Plagiarism In general this refers to the act of taking someone else's words, ideas -- -- In general this refers to the act of taking someone else's words, ideas or writings as your own without acknowledgement. In an academic context (see page What is is plagiarism?). This includes taking another person's work intentionally or unintentionally in order to gain an academic advantage. The University of Kent gives this definition of -- -- person's work intentionally or unintentionally in order to gain an academic advantage. The University of Kent gives this definition of plagiarism in the General Regulations Appendix A: * reproducing in any work submitted for assessment or review(for example, examination answers, essays, project reports, -- -- Turnitin In full this refers to the Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Software supplied under license from Turnitin UK . Submitted work is matched against a database of previously submitted work from every institution -- -- which subscribes to Turnitin, (including international institutions); current and archived internet pages and databases of journals and periodicals (Gale and Emerald). Turnitin does not detect plagiarism: it is a text-matching software which provides a report on whether a student's work is original (no matching text) or unoriginal. All