Good Scholarship

Plagiarism

The Academic Handbook at Queen Margaret University refers to plagiarism as:

"The presentation by an individual of another person's ideas or work (in any medium, published or unpublished) as though they were his or her own."

But what does this really mean and how does it affect you as a student at QMU?

1. Copying someone else's work and presenting it as your own
2. Copying someone else's work and changing a few words here and there
3. Submitting a piece of work for two assessments
4. Collaborating with another student
5. Why shouldn't I plagiarise?