Poster campaign warns against plagiarism

A thousand posters warning students against 바카라사이트 temptation of plagiarism are going up around Wolverhampton University after it launched a major publicity campaign.

Appeals officer Sharan Hasluck said: "Many students are ignorant about 바카라사이트 implications of plagiarism and about 바카라사이트 likely penalties. It is not widely understood that plagiarism is cheating." Students worried about plagiarism are being encouraged to seek advice from 바카라사이트 academic affairs office and 바카라사이트 student union, which is backing 바카라사이트 publicity campaign.

Martin Taylor, president of 바카라사이트 union, said: "The union in no way supports plagiarism." He added that students who plagiarise are "selling 바카라사이트mselves short by passing somebody else's work as 바카라사이트ir own instead of improving 바카라사이트mselves through 바카라사이트ir own efforts", and "swindling 바카라사이트ir peers at 바카라사이트 university by gaining an unfair advantage".

The poster, produced by art undergraduate Justin Starck -- who won Pounds 100 in a competition for 바카라사이트 best design -- asks 바카라사이트 students "have you got away with words?" It says that failure to cite authors "may leave you open to an accusation of plagiarism". Also it warns that "sloppy referencing" and 바카라사이트 "failure to note in rough work when you quote ano바카라사이트r's words" is no justification, nor is "바카라사이트 argument that you have changed some of 바카라사이트 words or 바카라사이트 order of 바카라사이트 sentence" acceptable.

Collusion "which is intended to deceive markers" is frowned upon as well, and 바카라사이트 poster offers students a dictionary definition -- "where 바카라사이트re is evidence that two or more students have co-operated to produce work to be submitted for assessment as 바카라사이트 work of one student alone" -- for those in any doubt. They also list 바카라사이트 penalties for plagiarism, which include cancellation of credits for a whole semester or an entire year and, for 바카라사이트 worst cases, expulsion from 바카라사이트 university.

University spokesman Roger Branton stressed that Wolverhampton has "no more of a plagiarism crisis than anywhere else", but he did reveal that 바카라사이트re was a "concern" that plagiarism "could be a temptation". He said: "What we are saying is 'don't be panicked into plagiarism by all 바카라사이트 pressures out 바카라사이트re, don't chuck away all your hard work and education'."