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Demonstrate academic integrity principles during your studies at university and beyond.
Maintain academic integrity under pressure and when participating in group work.
Reference other people's ideas appropriately to strengthen your own work.
Recognise academic integrity, how it might be breached, and what you can do in response.
Manage more complex academic integrity situations, such as ethical re-use of your own work and citing multimedia references.
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MAP contains five modules. The first three modules illustrate the key principles and behaviours of academic integrity, and will help you incorporate best practices in your work. Modules 4 - 5 explore more complex scenarios and offer practical advice.
Module 1. What is academic integrity?
- Discuss why academic integrity is important for study and future professional practice.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the expectations of the academic environment.
- Explain the key concepts, principles and practices of academic integrity.
- Identify and reflect on your motivations for studying.
Module 2. How do I show academic integrity in my preparation?
- Identify ways to maintain academic integrity under pressure.
- Allocate work and responsibility to ensure academic integrity when working with others.
- Explain the reasons for communicating or building on others' ideas or work.
- Identify relevant sources, narrow searches and evaluate if the source itself complies with the principles of academic integrity.
- Explain the importance of recording source information to ensure academic integrity.
Module 3. How do I show academic integrity in my work?
- Demonstrate understanding of the importance of academic integrity when evaluating different sources and making notes.
- Demonstrate academic integrity through the appropriate use of referencing.
- Recognise the different ways to refer to another person's work or ideas with integrity.
- Differentiate between quotations, paraphrases and summaries to incorporate source material into your writing.
- Use text-matching software to help demonstrate academic integrity in your assignments.
- Show academic integrity when you work with other people.
Module 4. How can I feel more confident about academic integrity?
- Identify and reflect on recent academic integrity challenges.
- Identify ways to show academic integrity when working with other students.
- Demonstrate confidence in making decisions based on academic integrity.
Module 5. How do I deal with more complex situations?
- Reflect on the academic integrity expectations of major assessments.
- Recognise appropriate sources of support.
- Identify the differences between self-plagiarism and ethical re-use of own work.
- Use and reference digital media (e.g. images and video) with academic integrity.
- Gain confidence in the use of software and online tools that support academic integrity.