Glossary

Academic Integrity

The attitude of approaching your academic work honestly, by completing your own original work, attributing and acknowledging your sources when necessary and not relying on dishonest means to gain advantage.

Bibliography

List of all sources used in preparing your work, including those that inspired you but which you did not cite in your work.

Bibliographical details

The publication details of the source used. These details vary depending on the type of source, but will include the author and title of the work plus publication information so that the exact source can be found again.

Citation (in-text)

The short, formal acknowledgement of a source within your work whenever you paraphrase, quote, make use of an idea expressed by somebody else or refer to a specific body of work. Also used to mean the reference.

Cite Them Right

UEL's Standardised Referencing System is Cite Them Right (unless you are studying for a degree in the Field of Psychology where the referencing system is APA). Cite Them Right can be accessed by students in a number of different ways - you can borrow it from all our libraries, buy it at John Smith campus bookshops and consult it online 24/7 in the Campus Bookmarks list in UEL Plus.

Collaboration

Students working together on a group assignment where this is expressly permitted..

Collusion

Work submitted by an individual student that is not thier own and produced with another student or group of students with teh intention of gaining an unfair advantage. Unless you have been told otherwise, any work you submit for assessment must be your own work, even if the work has been produced as a result of groupwork.

Common knowledge

Information that is widely accessible and well-known, for example that London is the capital city of England. What constitutes common knowledge may vary across subject areas.

Good academic practice

The process of completing your academic work independently, honestly and in an appropriate academic style, using good referencing and acknowledging all of your sources. Good academic practice involves developing:

study skills (eg reading, note-taking, research etc)
critical enquiry and evaluation (eg balanced opinion, reasoning and argument)
appropriate academic writing (eg essays, reports, dissertations etc)
referencing skills (eg when and how to reference)
exam techniques (eg preparation, timing, etc).

Plagiarism

In general this refers to the act of taking someone else's words, ideas or writings as your own without acknowledgement..This includes taking another person's work intentionally or unintentionally in order to gain an academic advantage..

Paraphrase

Restate a text in your own words. This does not need to be placed in quotation marks but it must be fully referenced by in text citation.

Quote

A quote is the word for word repetition of the original text. Quoted sources need to be either shown in quotation marks or indented depending on whether the quote is long or short. What is considered a long quote or a short quote and exactly how to present these depends on your particular referencing style.

Reference

A reference (noun) means the full bibliographical details of a source. This should include: name, initial, date of publication, publisher, publishing location and title, but may also include subtitle, chapter, editor, edition, date accessed etc. depending on the source and the referencing style you are using. The sequence in which this information is presented is also determined by the particular referencing style. To reference (verb) means to acknowledge your sources by giving an in-text reference or citation in the body of your work plus the full bibliographic details of the source (the reference) in your list of sources.

Reference list

List of only those sources cited in your work. Sometimes this term is used interchangeably with the term bibliography.

Secondary citation

Citing an author or work which has been cited in another author's work. This practice is not recommended. You should find the original work and cite that. In this way, you can be sure that you fully understand the original work and that you are not relying on someone else's interpretation of the particular work you wish to cite.

Source

Sources can be books, articles, reports, websites, newspapers, video/DVD, pod casts, radio or TV programmes, interviews/conversations, lectures, data, graphs, pictures, maps, questionnaires, performance art, productions, leaflets, brochures, plus work of other scholars, including yourself and other students (it does not matter whether these are published or unpublished).

Summary

A summary, when used in the context of referencing sources, means that you are writing a shorter version of the original work, in your own words. This does not need to be placed in quotation marks, but it must be fully referenced..

Turnitin

In full this refers to the Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Software supplied under license from Turnitin UK . Submitted work is matched against a database of previously submitted work from every institution which subscribes to Turnitin, (including international institutions); current and archived internet pages and databases of journals and periodicals.

Turnitin does not detect plagiarism: it is text-matching software which provides a report on whether a student's work is original (no matching text) or unoriginal.

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