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Marks: 1/1

Who should you contact if you have an administrative query?

Choose one answer.
a. a fellow student
b. Student Support

Well done. This is the correct answer.

The programme co-ordinator can help
you with any administrative or
pastoral query.

c. module tutor
d. programme leader
Correct

Marks for this submission: 1/1.

Marks: 0.5/1

How can you get in touch with your module tutor?

Choose at least one answer.
a. email

Correct.

b. Telephone

Sorry, try again

c. discussion forum
Partially correct

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Marks: 1/1

When can you submit your assignment?

Choose at least one answer.

a. When I have submitted an

Intent to Sit form

Sorry this is the wrong answer.

Please try again.
An Intent to Sit form is only needed
for examinations.

b. By the dealine specified on

your assignment question
paper

Well done. This is the correct answer.

c. whenever I feel like it

Correct

Marks for this submission: 1/1.

Marks: 0/1

What information should you expect to receive from your Programme co-ordinator?
(multiple answers allowed)
Choose at least one answer.
a. My username and password to iLearn
b. An electronic copy of my Student Handbook
c. A generic textbook for the programme
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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By when must your Intent to Sit form (and any examination fee payment) be
submitted?
Choose one answer.
a. a minimum of 6 days before the examination
b. a minimum of 10 weeks before the examination

c. a minimum of 2 weeks before the examination

d. a minimum of 6 weeks before examination

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When you submit your assignment, what are the processes that it automatically goes
through?
Choose one answer.
a. The Student Support team will go through and check
your work
b. It is automatically filtered through a plagiarism detection
system
c. It doesn't go through a process

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What happens if you do not submit on the date specified on the assignment question ?
Choose one answer.
a. You will need to complete a new assignment question
and submit it at the next available opportunity
b. You will not be penalised and can submit at anytime
c. You can apply for an extension

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Where do you post your completed assignment?

Choose one answer.
a. You upload it to your personal Learning Space

b. You click on the assignment submission link and following

the online instructions
c. You e-mail it to your Student Support Team and course
tutor

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Why might you not be allowed to take an exam?

Choose at least one answer.
a. I did not submit and Intent to Sit form in time
b. I was referred on my first attempt
c. I did not pay for my exam venue on time
d. I forgot to bring a pen into the exam
e. I did not pay my re-sit fee in time
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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Why might your assignment be returned unmarked?

Choose at least one answer.
a. I was referred on my first attempt
b. My word count was more than 20% over the specified
work limit
c. I did not pay my reassessment fee in time
d. I requested a deferral
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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How long does it take for your assignment grades to be released?

Choose one answer.
a. 1 week from submission
b. 6 weeks from submission
c. 10 weeks from submission

Plagiarism and Referencing Quiz

Your academic work on the HNC/D Diploma in Computing and Systems Development
programme will involve reading widely so as to enhance your knowledge and analytical
skills. Your assessment work will therefore include numerous references to relevant
sources that help to address the issue at hand. In citing the work of other authors it
demonstrates your understanding and knowledge. When appropriately applied, this can
lead to insight that would otherwise be problematic to achieve. By appropriately
referencing your work you will protect yourself from accusations of plagiarism and
moreover demonstrate that you are developing your academic skills. The following
questions are designed as a self diagnostic. Where you identify a gap in your knowledge
then you should seek to address this. Guidance on referencing can be found within the
student handbook. You might also want to go to the following link for further guidance:
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/citing_references/docs/Citing_Refs.pdf

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What is plagiarism? Plagiarism means:

Choose at least one answer.
a. claiming the work of others as your own work
b. that I forget to attribute work to the source

c. that I forget to place speech marks around direct quotations

that I use
d. reusing work you have completed for another assessment
without acknowledgement
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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Using someones ideas without acknowledgement is like borrowing someones car

without permission, consequently plagiarism is considered:
Choose at least one answer.
a. Just bad practice
b. a little bit wrong
c. Cheating-Plagiarism
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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Why is it important to reference your work?

Choose at least one answer.
a. To allow the reader of your work to locate the cited
references easily, and so evaluate your interpretation of
those ideas
b. To show evidence of the breadth and depth of your
reading
c. To acknowledge other peoples' ideas correctly thus
avoiding the issue of plagiarism!
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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What do we mean by citing your sources?

Choose at least one answer.
a. Acknowledging the sources of information you have
used
b. Finding and retrieving appropriate information sources
c. Analysing the work of others
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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Paul is starting his assessment. He asks his friend Nwando, who writes good essays, to
join up with him. She agrees to lend Paul her essay. Nwando submits her finished
essay. Paul makes a few alterations to the introduction and conclusion of Nwandos
essay and then submits the essay as his own.
Choose at least one answer.
a. It is not plagiarism because it is not using published
material
b. It is collusion because Paul and Nwando did not write
separate essays
c. The tutor is not likely to notice two essays that are
the same among all the others
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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You find the perfect article from the internet and include verbatim several significant
chunks of it word for word in your work. You make sure that it is correctly referenced
and put quotation marks around it.
Choose at least one answer.

a. It will be considered as plagiarism

b. You are likely to fail that assignment because most of it is
not in your own words which means it is too source
dependent
c. Your tutor will be happy with the quality of your work
because you chose such a good quote
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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You finish your reference list and think that it doesnt look long enough. You copy some
references from another reference list that you think will help make the work appear
more substantial.
Choose at least one answer.
a. This is at best misleading and potentially an offence,
as you are trying to mislead the assessor about the
extent of your reading and the quality of your reference
list
b. It does not matter, you have not used any-one's
ideas
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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You forgot to make a note of the source of some material when carrying out your initial
reading, but you want to use it in your work.
Choose at least one answer.
a. It will be all right so long as you make it clear that it is
not your own idea
b. You must reference the source, if you decide to use
the material
c. If you paraphrase the material you can use it without
referencing the source

Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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You include all your references in the reference list but you do not reference the source
at the point of use in the text.
Choose at least one answer.
a. It is not plagiarised because you are not attempting
to hide any of your sources
b. Your work is plagiarised because you havent told the
reader that the words or ideas are not your own. In
effect you are claiming anothers work as your own
Incorrect

Marks for this submission: 0/1.

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You have found many different sources of material and 'put them in your own words' by
merging phrases from each, to make up new sentences for your work.
Which of these statements is correct?
Choose one answer.
a. It is acceptable because you have made a new
sentence
b. It is acceptable because you have paraphrased
c. It is plagiarism - they are not your ideas

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In different sections of your essay you repeat some very good ideas, word for word,
from a journal. You were very careful to provide the correct references in each case but
forgot to use quotation marks.
Is this a breach of assessment regulations?
Choose one answer.

a. Yes
b. No

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Which of the following is the correct way (using the Harvard System) to reference a
book in a reference list?
Choose one answer.
a. Thomas, Alan Berkeley, 2003. Controversies in
management, London: Routledge
b. Thomas, A. B., 2003. Controversies in management, 2nd
Edition, London: Routledge
c. Alan Berkeley Thomas, 2003. Controversies in management,
2nd Edition, London: Routledge

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Which of the following is the correct way (using the Harvard System) to reference a
journal article in a reference list?
Choose one answer.
a. Johns, C., 1993. 'Professional supervision', Journal of nursing
management,21 ( 1), 9-18
b. Johns, C. , 1993. 'Professional supervision', Journal of nursing
management,21 (1)
c. Johns, C., 1993. 'Professional supervision', Journal of nursing
management

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In an assignment this student had correctly referenced the following journal article in
their reference list: Lewis, B. R. & Clacher, E., 2001. Service Failure and Recovery in UK
Theme Parks: the Employee's Perspective, International journal of contemporary
hospitality management, 13 (4), 166-175
How would you cite this in the text?

Choose one answer.

a. Clacher & Lewis (2001)
b. Lewis & Clacher (2001)
c. Lewis et al (2001)

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If you are citing a quote within your text using the Harvard System what information
should you include?
Choose one answer.
a. Author, date of publication and page number, e.g.
(Naylor, 1999, p. 134)
b. Author and date of publication, e.g. (Naylor, 1999) but
put the page number of the reference in the reference
list
c. Just the author and date of publication, e.g. (Naylor,
1999)

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Which of the following is the correct way to reference an electronic book within your
reference list?
Choose one answer.
a. Moloney, K., 2000. Rethinking public relations: The spin and the
substance.London: Routledge
b. Moloney, K., 2000. Rethinking public relations: The spin and the
substance.London: Routledge. Available
from:http://www.netlibrary.com/AccessProduct.aspx?ProductId=73059 [13
August 2008]
c. Moloney, K., 2000. Rethinking public relations: The spin and the
substance.London: Routledge. Available
from:http://www.netlibrary.com/AccessProduct.aspx?ProductId=73059

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Which of the following is the correct way to reference a web page within your reference
list?
Choose one answer.
a. National Centre for Social Research, 2006. Qualitative research. London:
National Centre for Social Research
b. National Centre for Social Research, 2006. Qualitative research. London:
National Centre for Social Research. Available
from:http://www.netlibrary.com/AccessProduct.aspx?ProductId=73058
c. National Centre for Social Research, 2006. Qualitative research London:
National Centre for Social Research. Available
from:http://www.netlibrary.com/AccessProduct.aspx?ProductId=73058 [13
August 2008]

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Sometimes you need to cite a journal article or book that someone else has cited in the
book or journal that you are consulting - called a secondary source. Select the correct
way of citing in your text (using the Harvard System) the following reference: Pollock,
T. (1995) Children in contemporary society. Cambridge: Macmillan. Cited in Jones, P.
(1996) A family affair. London Butterworth.
Choose one answer.
a. Jones (1996)
b. (Pollock, 1995) cited in Jones (1996)
c. Pollock (1995)