Intentional plagiarism or collusion amounts to cheating under Part 7 of the Monash University (Council) Regulations

Plagiarism: Plagiarism means taking and using another person’s ideas or manner of expressing them and passing them off as one’s own.  For example, by failing to give appropriate acknowledgment.  The material used can be from any source (staff, students or the internet, published and unpublished works).

Collusion: Collusion means unauthorised collaboration with another person on assessable written, oral or practical work and includes paying another person to complete all or part of the work.

Where there are reasonable grounds for believing that intentional plagiarism or collusion has occurred, this will be reported to the Associate Dean (Education) or delegate, who may disallow the work concerned by prohibiting assessment or refer the matter to the Faculty Discipline Panel for a hearing.

Student Statement:

· I have read the university’s Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedures.

· I understand the consequences of engaging in plagiarism and collusion as described in Part 7 of the Monash University (Council) Regulations https://www.monash.edu/legal/legislation/current-statute-regulations-and-related-resolutions 

· I have taken proper care to safeguard this work and made all reasonable efforts to ensure it could not be copied.

· I have not used any unauthorised materials in the completion of this assessment task.

· No part of this assessment has been previously submitted as part of another unit/course.

· I acknowledge and agree that the assessor of this assessment task may for the purposes of assessment, reproduce the assessment and:

i. provide to another member of faculty and any external marker; and/or

ii. submit it to a text-matching software; and/or

iii. submit it to a text-matching software which may then retain a copy of the assessment on its database for the purpose of future plagiarism checking.

· I certify that I have not plagiarised the work of others or participated in unauthorised collaboration when preparing this assessment.

Signature:     (Type your full name)

 Date:

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