Teaching - Plagiarism

All staff and students in the School of Biomedical Sciences should adhere to the university policy on Plagarism and Cheating. This policy defines plagarism and cheating as:

• Plagiarism – means to take and use another person’s ideas and or manner of expressing them and to pass them off as one’s own by failing to give appropriate acknowledgement.

• Cheating – means seeking to obtain an unfair advantage in an examination or in other written or practical work required to be submitted or completed by a student for assessment.

Each piece of non-examinable assessment (assignments, practical reports, essay etc) should be accompanied by a coversheet in which the student identifies that they are aware of the University’s plagarism and cheating policy and that they have abided by it. A covering sheet can be downloaded here (rtf format | pdf format).

A flow chart for the procedures to be followed by staff can be found on the Science Faculty teaching website.

For further details about the university plagarism and cheating policy staff and students are directed to the following website: http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/unisec/academicpolicies/policy/plagiarism.html