Plagiarism and citing sources
The course has a near-zero tolerance for plagiarism and this will be enforced with the TurnItIn plagiarism detection software. While paraphrasing the material is not recommended, direct copying from the sources without proper attribution of the quote is not accepted accepted at all. When you consider quoting the material, consider the following:
- Are you trying to explain an idea presented in the material?
- Are you trying to demonstrate specifically what was said or a specific result that was reported?
In the first case, it is better to explain the idea in your own words. In the second case, quoting the material is recommended, but the material must be clearly marked as a quote. Please see Chapter 6 Crediting Sources in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) for details on how to do this.
One exception to his policy is that if a student has answered to an assignment as a part of previous attempt to do the course or as a part of the pre-requisite course TU-L0000, that old submission can be used as a starting point for a new submission for this course..
Submissions that contain non-trivial amounts of text that has been quoted but not properly marked as quotes will lead to a score of 0 for the assignment. To get a passing grade, a student that fails due to plagiarism will need to submit two new versions:
- The originally submitted text where all copied sections are marked as direct quotes following the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) guidelines.
- A new version where the direct quotes are rephrased in your own words.
If there are still problems in these two versions, the student is asked to correct the problems according to the above instructions and resubmit new versions. To avoid unnecessary rewriting of a submission multiple times, students that are asked to resubmit must check their work using the Independent Turnitin Originality Check before to submitting to the course website.
This strict policy is necessary because academic writing follows certain conventions and it will be impossible to publish ones research if these conventionas are not followed. Therefore, at this point of studies it is important to produce text yourself even when you were explaining what someone else has said. Many journals in management follow the APA referencing style, so it is useful to get to know the style early on. The style guide can be found at the library. Read through at least the rules 6.01-6.10. (in 6th edition, available in the Zotero library). Additionally, many journals (e.g. Elsevier journals) also use TurnItIn for checking submitted works, and therefore knowing how this program works can help you avoid problems in the future.
