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Plagiarism is the presentation of another person's words, ideas, arguments, concepts or designs as your own. Plagiarism comes in many shapes and forms ranging from the copying, without attribution, of whole sections of published works to the unattributed use of text, diagrams, illustrations or formulae taken from the unpublished work of other students. Plagiarism covers not only print but intellectual property rights which reside in all other media including software.

Plagiarism is a very serious offence. Allegations of plagiarism will be automatically referred to the Disciplinary Committee of the University. Under the University's Disciplinary Code, plagiarism or the use of unauthorised material during an examination or other breaches of the examination regulations are all defined as examples of major offences. Serious academic offences such as plagiarism, cheating etc., may result in one or more of the following disciplinary actions being taken against the offending student:

• the award of a mark of zero or such other deduction in marks as the Disciplinary Committee may recommend to an Examination Board, without an opportunity to repeat or to re-submit the work in question.
• such other action as the Disciplinary Committee may recommend to an Examination Board;
• such disciplinary action as may be authorised by the University's Code of Discipline from time to time.

In order to avoid any suspicion of plagiarism in your work, you should:

• cite the sources of all quotations, paraphrases, summaries of information, tables, diagrams or other material; including software and other electronic media in which intellectual property rights may reside, which you use;
• when paraphrasing the work of others, use your own words and sentence structures;
• provide a complete bibliography of all works and sources used in the preparation of your projects, essay or other assignment.

Students are referred to the university's Code of Discipline, Examination Regulations and all other University Regulations issued from time to time.