23.1.1 Plagiarism

Plagiarism refers to representing another person’s words or ideas as one’s own in any academic exercise. The University of Dubai has zero tolerance towards plagiarism (i.e. any portion of a submitted document that contains plagiarism will lead to the appropriate penalty). Every academic submission made by a student should be a work of his own and also not be self-plagiarized. In all cases of plagiarism whether it is blatant or self-plagiarism, students will be held accountable for violation of academic integrity which also includes a penalty for their dishonesty.

Types of Plagiarism

Self: A student’s work reproduced more than once for the same course or for other courses without prior permission(s) of the instructor(s) involved is an act of plagiarism. Students should be very careful when quoting or paraphrasing (properly citing material).
Accidental: Every student is required to understand plagiarism as something similar to acts of fraud in the academic community. For this reason, it is the responsibility of the student to make sure his/her work has been checked and properly acknowledged.
Blatant: Student’s work reproduced from a fellow student or any other information source intentionally without proper acknowledgement is serious act of plagiarism. Students well of blatantly will lead to the strict penalty that can include non-grading of course work all the way to failing of the course as deemed by the faculty.

UD uses “Turnitin” software in Moodle to detect extent of similarity (through similarity index). Turnitin is used by both students and faculty to support in the learning process to understand the usage degree of the cited research material. The generated origination report from Moodle will support in the process.

For the above objective, Turnitin tool will be used by the faculty for all the graded assignments, exams, projects.

The faculty has the right to make final decision in regards to the students’ grades work in determining the student work integrity based on the criteria and the faculty awareness of the student’s work level.

Students must ensure complying with UD plagiarism policy, repeated offenses receive higher penalties as stated in the table below

	Violation	Sanction(s) (Refer to II.A)
i	Turnitin distinguishes similarity as matching text and plagiarism. Turnitin system will compare the paper to any matching text in Turnitin databases and highlight accordingly – even if the text was properly referenced. As to, identifying substantial non-original material (citation, quotes, reference) it is the faculty member duty to determine each student’s paper as intentional plagiarism by referring to originality report in Turnitin (instead of blindly depending on similarity index). If such non-original material (citation, quotes, references) identified by the faculty member as “intentionally plagiarized and/or has improper/lack of citation in student’s work as in the origination report, then punitive action needs to be taken by the instructor.	2, 6
ii	Paraphrasing (i.e., putting into one’s own words) a source’s text, without providing proper acknowledgment/citation.	1, 2
iii	Reproducing (without proper citation) any other form of work created by another person.	1, 2