Plagiarism
IT Blanchardstown
considers plagiarism to be a serious offence. According to the Merriam –
Webster online dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off the ideas
or words of another as one’s own. It is to commit literacy theft or to present
as new and original an idea derived from an existing source. It can also
involve having someone else doing your assignment for you or copying graphs or
charts from someone else’s work. While is it considered appropriate to read and
refer to the work of other people all sources must be properly referenced. Quotations
and summaries support your own ideas not replace them. In the event of
plagiarism being discovered an inquiry is initiated by the course tutor and the
student will receive a zero grade for his/her work. In an exam situation the
examination board may decide not to give a mark to the person doing an exam.
All students must be careful to avoid unintentional plagiarism through
carelessness, copying the work of other students and confusing different
sources.
Referencing
The referencing system
that is used by Blanchardstown IT is the Harvard System of Referencing. All
written work must be referenced to avoid plagiarism and to give credit to the
original author. You must reference to support your ideas and also to give your
reader other sites to explore similar ideas. It is important when studying
resources or sources of materials/ideas that you think about;
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What is the
focus?
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Who has produced
the material?
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Why it has been
produced?
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When it was
published?
Consider too that the
sources may be books, newspapers, pictures, graphs, diagrams, journals or the
internet.
The Harvard system of
referencing is a two-step system of referencing.
1.
In text
referencing or citations which are used within a piece of writing either before
or after a reference to information gathered. You must give the author’s
surname, the year it was published and a page number.
2.
Reference List –
this is a list of all materials used for research presented in alphabetical
order at the end of a piece of writing.
Reference List
www.itb.ie – Institute
policy on plagiarism in assignments and examinations – 2003
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