Plagiarism Avoidance Guide

Plagiarism from another student or group of students or academic staff (also referred to as ‘syndication’). Syndication may take the following forms:

• Voluntary syndication – you (or a group of students of which you are a part) submit work that is similar/identical to the submission of another student or group of students or the submission contains passages which are identical to other submissions. The group may have willingly worked together but failed to submit their own unique versions of the work for assessment.
• Involuntary syndication – you (or a group of students of which you are a part) appropriate the work from an unsuspecting fellow student for the express use of submitting it as your own.
• Teaching source syndication – you (or a group of students of which you are a part) copy and then use the outline or content detail suggested by a tutor or lecturer which was made available to all the students in the lecture session, either as is and without substantively reworking it.