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Additional resources

There are an abundance of resources available to learn more about academic honesty and practice your skills. The list below should help you in getting started.

• Quotes and Paraphrasing Powerpoint Presentation (no audio - 3.15MB) - developed by the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney.

• Write it in Your Own Words - Purdue University Online Writing Lab advice on paraphrasing.

To develop your academic wiring skills in general, here are some services available at University of Sydney:

• The WriteSite is a new e-learning resource which helps students achieve excellence in academic writing.

• The Learning Centre
  Develop your academic writing and reading skills by enrolling in one of the Learning Centre's courses.

• The Library's Research and Information Skills webpage

• The Learning Centre Annotated Links resource
  The Learning Centre Annotated Links resource provides links to Australian and overseas websites that inform and instruct academic writing skills. These sites can help you develop different aspects of the academic writing skills you need as a University of Sydney student.

• English as a Second language (ESL) Materials
  The META Resource Centre Language Library provides access to interactive self paced learning multimedia kits for students of English as a 2nd language (ESL).

PDF Information from this website

• Introduction to Academic Honesty

• What is plagiarism?

• Plagiarism - Avoid it by knowing what to reference

• How to reference

• Plagiarism - Avoiding it with acceptable paraphrasing

• Legitimate groupwork versus free riding

• Legitimate collaboration versus collusion

• Other forms of academic dishonesty

• Beyond assignments

Plagiarism and how to avoid it

• How Not to Plagiarize - University of Toronto Writing Support

• How to Recognize Plagiarism - Indiana University (Exercises)

• Plagiarism - Online Writing Lab (OWL)

• Plagiarism and writing resources - Princeton Writing Program 

Guidance on referencing

Note: APA is one form of Harvard in-text referencing.

• Quick Reference Citing - Anglia Ruskin University

• Referencing using the Harvard author-date system - University of South Australia

• Referen©ite - University of Auckland

• American Psychological Association (APA) format - Purdue University

• APA Author-Date Reference & Citation System - University of Melbourne

Use the web as a resource

• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask - UC Berkeley 

• Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources - UCLA

Footnotes

1. Swales and Feak (1993). Academic Writing for Graduate Students. University of Michigan.
2. Newstead S, Franklyn-Stokes A, Armstead P (1996). Individual differences in student cheating . Journal of Educational Psychology Vol. 88 No. 2 229-241.
3. Wood J M et al. (2001). Organisational Behaviour: a global perspective. Third Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Milton.
4. UWS (2002). Plagiarism Guidelines. [Online].  www.uws.edu.au/download.php?file_id=4325&filename=Draft_Law_School_Student_Information.pdf&mimetype=application/pdf [accessed 12.01.2005]