MODULE 7
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND PERFORMANCE
Date: 08/08/2018
Place: Al-Biruni 2 Hall
MODULE OVERVIEW
PLAGIARISM
Students are exposed to:
i. What is plagiarism
ii. The common type of plagiarism
iii. How to prevent plagiarism when writing the assignments, paper or report.
CALCULATING GRADE POINT AVERAGE
iv. What is Grade Point Average (GPA) and Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) which represent student’s academic achievement.
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
an act representing other work or idea without permission
THE TYPE OF PLAGIARISM
Direct Plagiarism
Direct plagiarism is the word-for-word transcription of a section of someone else’s work, without attribution and without quotation marks.
Self Plagiarism
Self-plagiarism occurs when a student submits his or her own previous work, or mixes parts of previous works, without permission from all professors involved.
Mosaic Plagiarism
Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when a student borrows phrases from a source without using quotation marks, or finds synonyms for the author’s language while keeping to the same general structure and meaning of the original.
Accidental Plagiarism
Accidental plagiarism occurs when a person neglects to cite their sources or unintentionally paraphrases a source by using similar words, and sentence structure without attribution.
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
Activity 1
Compare two different students' paraphrases of the same text to the original and decide if these are examples of paraphrase or plagiarism.
Question 1
Original Source:
“The amount of time females allocated to maintenance behaviors, including self-preening, preening nestlings, allopreening, and maintaining their nest, decreased by 30% in response to hikers” (Swarthout and Steidl 2003, p.312).
“The amount of time females allocated to maintenance behaviors, including self-preening, preening nestlings, allopreening, and maintaining their nest, decreased by 30% in response to hikers” (Swarthout and Steidl 2003, p.312).
Student's Entry:
The presence of hikers reduced female owls’ preening, of themselves, their young and their mates, and nest maintenance behaviors by over 25% (Swarthout and Steidl 2003).
The presence of hikers reduced female owls’ preening, of themselves, their young and their mates, and nest maintenance behaviors by over 25% (Swarthout and Steidl 2003).
Question 2
Original Source:
“The amount of time females allocated to maintenance behaviors, including self-preening, preening nestlings, allopreening, and maintaining their nest, decreased by 30% in response to hikers” (Swarthout and Steidl 2003, p.312).
“The amount of time females allocated to maintenance behaviors, including self-preening, preening nestlings, allopreening, and maintaining their nest, decreased by 30% in response to hikers” (Swarthout and Steidl 2003, p.312).
Student's Entry:
The amount of time female owls dedicated to maintaining their nest, self-preening, allopreening and preening nestlings decreased 30% in response to hikers (Swarthout and Steidl 2003).
The amount of time female owls dedicated to maintaining their nest, self-preening, allopreening and preening nestlings decreased 30% in response to hikers (Swarthout and Steidl 2003).
ANSWERS:
1. PARAPHRASE
2. PLAGIARISM
APA Writing & Citing Guide
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