Read the list below and decide whether each statement involves cheating, collusion or plagiarism.

1. Allowing your coursework to be copied by another student.
2. Taking unauthorised material into an exam.
3. Fabricating references or a bibliography.
4. Lying about medical/other circumstances to get special consideration.
5. Copying another student's coursework with their knowledge.
6. Paying someone to write your coursework
7. Downloading coursework off the web and submitting it unchanged
8. Taking an exam for someone else or vice versa.
9. Continuing to write an exam after the invigilator calls time.
10. Copying another student's coursework without their knowledge.
11. Illicitly gaining information about the contents of an exam.
12. Inventing or altering data.
13. Not contributing a fair share to group work that results in a group mark
14. Ensuring the availability of books/journals in the library by deliberately mis-shelving them or cutting out chapters/articles.
15. Paraphrasing material from a source without acknowledging the original author.
16. Copying material for coursework ... without acknowledging the source.
17. Planning between two or more students to share answers in an exam.
18. Copying from a neighbour during an exam without them realising.
19. Submitting jointly written coursework as an individual piece of work.

Based on Franklyn-Stokes, A and Newstead, SE (1995), 'Undergraduate Cheating: who does what and why', Studies in Higher Education, 20:2

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