Academic integrity is:

‍‘the expectation that teachers, students, researchers and all members of the academic community act with honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility.’ 

Select here to access TEQSA online to learn more about academic integrity

As a student at university, integrity is an expected characteristic of your university studies and assessments. It means engaging in learning and research with honesty and integrity in ways that show respect for the creation and sharing of knowledge within the academic community.

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is using someone else’s work and passing it off as your own. So, in essence, if you did not write the work yourself from your own ideas and reading but copied from the internet, a magazine, another student’s work, or any other source without acknowledging the original work, then you are not acting honestly and are in breach of the university’s policy. Universities take this very seriously.

Referencing

There are many styles of referencing and different publications and universities have a preferred style. The referencing style preferred by your discipline or unit will be stated in the assessment description. If it is not, then you must ask your lecturer. It is not expected that anyone is across all the different referencing styles, so your university will have a guide in the library or academic skills unit.

Select this link to head over to Five2Study to access a handy Referencing Tool to help you decide which style to use and the format of in-text referencing you can use.