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ethical use

If you use other people's ideas, views and work to compose your assignment, you must name all of the sources of your information. This means:

  • You are giving credit where it belongs. To claim other people's work as your own is plagiarism.
  • Your teachers can check that you can provide evidence for what you say.

originality versus cut and paste

Beware of submitting assignments which are just compilations of materials you have found.

Your teacher will expect you to put some work into summarizing material and explaining things in your own words.

your teacher says

"When I mark a stack of assignments, it's clear to me which are the students' work and which are just 'copy and paste' jobs.

I'm not impressed by plagiarism. I want assignments which show some real thinking by the student."

To complete the section on Ethical use, take this short quiz.