Plagiarism

Plagiarism is defined as the presentation of the work of others as the writer’s own without appropriate acknowledgement. This includes auto-plagiarism (to use excerpts from his or her previous work without appropriate acknowledgement) and self-plagiarism (to submit one piece of work more than once, for example, where such has been previously submitted for a different assignment). It is an academic offence for students to plagiarise.

Definitions and procedures for dealing with academic offences can be found in the University’s General Regulations on the Queen’s website.