Academic Honesty
Students are required to take note of the University Regulations at the website of Registry https://www.ln.edu.hk/reg/undergraduate-programmes The followings are some regulations for your easy reference.
(Extract from Regulations Governing University Examinations)
5. Dishonest Practice in Course Work
- Plagiarism is an unacceptable misconduct with grave consequences. The Faculty Office and Departments adopts a zero tolerance policy toward plagiarism, and reserve the right to exercise severe sanction to students who have committed such serious academic misconduct, including automatic failure in the course concerned.
- All the quotation and paraphrases taken or derived from the work of other authors should be properly acknowledged within the text of all assignments, and full bibliographic details of books/articles/websites used should be included in the reference list.
- It is the student’s responsibility to seek help from the professors if he/she has problems in differentiating plagiarism from properly adopting others’ ideas in academic work.
5.1 If a student attempts to gain an advantage in the assessment of his/her work by collusion, falsification of data, plagiarism, or any other form of dishonest practice, it will be regarded as a case of cheating.
5.2 Cheating in course work may take any one of the following forms:
a. Collusion - where a student mispresents a piece of unauthorized group of work as his/her work.
b. Falsification of Data – where the presentation of data in reports, projects or research papers, which is purported to be based on experimental or research work conducted by the students, has actually been invented by the students, copies or obtained by unfair means.
c. Plagiarism – the presentation of another person’s work without proper acknowledgement of the source, including exact phrases, or summarised ideas, or even footnotes/ citations, whether protected by copyright or not, as the student’s own work.
d. Any other form of dishonest practice in course work, e.g. submission of same or substantially same work for two assignments without prior approval.
5.3 Any staff member who has reason to believe that a student has cheated should inform the Chairman of the Board of Examiners concerned and provide him/her with all the relevant facts of the case.
5.4 The Board of Examiners will consider whether there is a case of cheating.
5.5 A student considered to have cheated in course work should be given zero mark for that particular piece of work, and the Board of Examiners concerned has the discretion to impose a penalty on the students by revising downward the overall course grade.
Avoiding Plagiarism
In order to enhance students’ understanding of plagiarism, all new students, including senior years admittees, starting from 2016-17 intake are required to complete an online mini-course entitled ‘Online Tutorial on Plagiarism Awareness’ by the end of their first year in Lingnan. Completion will be indicated by ticking a check-box at the end of the tutorial. For details, please visit http://study.ln.edu.hk/tlc/plagiarism-resources-student.