VU MBA Final Project and Plagiarism Sensitisation

Image by giulia.forsythe via Flickr Academic integrity is extremely important and an integral part of coursework at the Virtual University of Pakistan. Plagiarism is a serious offence to academic integrity; it is academic theft and dishonesty. It is essential that academic integrity procedures and policies are respected and practised at all times.

As a student of Virtual University

• Do share ideas with one another.
• Do consult books, journals, magazines, internet sources as much as possible.
• Do take care in downloading sources and taking notes.
• Do use sources wisely and fairly.
• Do take great care to distinguish between your own ideas and knowledge from information derived from sources.
• Do place quotations properly within quotation marks and cite them fully.
• Do acknowledge paraphrased material completely.
• Do expect to make mistakes managing and citing sources and do expect to correct them.
• Do learn the myriad rhetorical purposes that including and citing sources can serve
• Do have fun with sources, think of using them as weaving, building, playing with blocks, or any other metaphor that you associate with "taking what's at hand and making something of it”.
• Do discover an argument so you have a distinctive voice in your own assignment/paper, and are not overwhelmed and intimidated by sources

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