Plagiarism Information

The university potentially sees the use of the service as one of its strategies toreduce plagiarism, which include:

• the use of the plagiarism awareness pack (student support);
• reviewing and designing assessments to reduce the opportunities for plagiarism (developing good academic practices);
• the university's revised academic misconduct policy (which supports academic integrity by dealing seriously with allegations of academic misconduct, including plagiarism).

The strategies aim to:

• promoting academic integrity
• deterring plagiarism
• provoking discussion about plagiarism
• supporting students to improve their referencing skills

ASC have endorsed 3 revised ways for the use of the TurnitinUK Plagiarism Detection Software as follows:

I. in the context of the academic misconduct procedure (as an aid to the detection of plagiarism where a student is suspected)
II. for the whole class/group summative screening of selective assignments/modules (to monitor the incidences of plagiarism)
III. incorporated into formative assignment work as part of a suitable module or study skills session (as a developmental tool to develop scholarly writing and referencing practices amongst students)

last updated 5th October 2011
Academic Standards and Partnership
AcademicStandards@brighton.ac.uk 
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