Plagiarism

Each performance submitted for assessment programme, must be the student's own work and must not contain plagiarised. Students discovered plagiarising would be disciplined or may defend themselves through the Academic Appeals and Complaints Procedure.

Definitions

1. Plagiarism is the act of presenting the material, ideas, and arguments of another person/persons as one's own. To images, music or parts of musical composition or even particular striking expressions without acknowledgement in a manner which may deceive the spectator as to the source is plagiarism.
2. Copying of any kind is is an act of plagiarism, incorporating into an assessment material from books, journals, the Web, the work of another student or any other source without acknowledgement and submitting it in verbatim or paraphrased form as one's own.
3. Parody should not be confused with plagiarism- as it is a a major form of making meaning with puppets- however in the effort of making a parody, care must be taken in how work is referenced so that what passes as original work is not deceiving the spectator.

Watching out for and recording plagiarism

The Internal Assessor will decide whether the offence is a minor or a serious offence, in discussion with the Tutor who has discovered the alleged plagiarism. The Director of Studies keeps a register of offences and so should be consulted to ascertain whether the student has committed a previous offence.

Preventing Plagiarism

1. In order to comply with the fundamental requirements set out in the  section above that all work submitted by the student must be his/her own work, the student must ensure that:
2. All work -references should be put into the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) so that the progress of ideas can be properly monitored by students and colleagues. Please follow the directions below:
   • Any written references taken from books, journals etc phrases, sentences and passages taken verbatim from a published work should be placed in quotation marks and the source is acknowledged
   • Any ideas or discussions taken from a published work , or from a tutor or visiting artist should be clearly acknowledged.
   • References from YouTube and other visual sources-and if other intellectual property such as illustrations, diagrams, proofs, designs, computer software are included all references should be acknowledged and the identified and credited to the original creator with links included so that the marker can follow them up.
   • References of others is not so pronounced in the submitted work as to compromise the student's ownership of the work.