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8. Copying from another student’s coursework.• This includes copying done with or without the knowledge of another student. It also includesusing someone’s coursework that had been submitted in a previous year — at any educationalinstitution. Examples would include:• Copying all or part of someone else’s assignment• Allowing someone else to copy all or part of your assignment• Having someone else do all or part of an assignment for you• Doing all or part of someone else’s assignment for them9. Making up or fabricating data.• This includes including false data in the writing up of laboratory reports, or using made-upquotations from interviewees.10. Submitting the same, or a substantially similar, assignment that you have done for assessment inmore than one course.11. Using material obtained from commercial essay or assignment services, including web-basedsources.• Buying or otherwise acquiring essays, answers or ideas (in whole or in part) and using them in acoursework assignment is unacceptable.• Using information and material from a website without attribution is not acceptable.Computer-and internet-assisted cheating is a well-known phenomenon globally. All students should alsobe aware that computerised detection mechanisms and techniques are also growing in sophistication.These will be used increasingly to combat cheating.There are at least two other areas where the possibility of cheating could arise:(a) Editing/re-writing services:Assistance (professional or unpaid) with a writing project in order to improve the expression of yourown ideas is a long-standing practice in academe and is permissible. However, editors should onlyimprove grammar, punctuation, or the ordering of ideas. You should always indicate on the workwhen the help of an editor has been used. C heating can arise if the editing or re-writing changesthe ideas so that they are no longer solely your own, but instead can be viewed in whole or in partas the work of the editor/re-writer.(b) Group/team work and study:A feature of a university education is the opportunity to work, study and research as a member of agroup or team. The University encourages students to develop their skills in working in collaborativeand team settings. However, students and staff should be aware that group activities can pose risksfor cheating.If an assignment is designated by a course organiser as a group project with a group output — wherethe work of a group of students is assessed — it is the responsibility of group members to make sure thatthe workload is shared equally. Course organisers will determine procedures for dealing with caseswhere the final piece of work reflects unequal participation and effort.Cheating can arise in a group working/studying situation. For example, it is unacceptable if a number ofstudents work through to the solution of what is intended to be an individual’s assignment. This processassists that individual student to cheat. Another example would be two students submitting an identicalsection of an assignment.2010 Faculty of Law Handbook | 81