Plagiarism is a particular kind of cheating/fraud, which occurs when the student uses someone else’s work or previous work of their own, without correct referencing. This includes, but is not limited to:
- copying or using (parts of) other people's work or AI (original terms, ideas, results or conclusions, illustrations, prototypes) and presenting it as one’s own work; in addition using parts of another text (printed or digital), work generated by AI or previous work of their own without referencing (also if minor changes have been made), is considered to be plagiarism
- using visual and/or audio materials, test results, designs, software and program codes without referencing, and presenting that as one’s own original work
- using verbatim citations without clear referencing or without a clear indication of quotation (e.g., by omitting quotation marks, indentation, empty lines, etc.) and thereby creating the false impression that (part of) these citations is/are one’s own original work
- referring to literature that one has not read oneself (e.g. using references taken from someone else’s work)
- using texts that have been written in collaboration with others without explicitly mentioning this to be the case; or having others – paid or unpaid – write texts for you (ghost writing and/or contract cheating);submitting work that has already been published in whole or in part elsewhere (e.g. work from other courses or educational programmes), without references to the original work.
For more information about academic misconduct please see the Rules & Guidelines Examination Boards BMS.