Top Tips - Suspected Academic Offences

Make yourself aware of the academic offence procedure! The process will hopefully encourage you to be careful and make good decisions when writing your assignments and sitting your exams.

Never share your work! It can be tempting to help a friend in need but unfortunately you too will be penalised, even if you don’t think they will copy.

Make use of the referencing guidelines online! The library has lots of resources to help you improve your academic writing, paraphrasing and referencing skills, so definitely check out what’s available to make sure you are working at the best of your ability.

Allow yourself plenty of time to reference! There’s nothing worse than rushing your work at the last minute and remembering that you still have to add your references. If you allow yourself enough time, you can reference as you go and avoid any easily made mistakes.

Check your similarity score before submitting! The Turnitin programme is used globally and so will pick up any similarities in work worldwide. This makes it the perfect tool to check your similarity score. You can submit multiple times before the deadline to ensure that the score is kept low and that you have paraphrased correctly.