Penalties

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Penalties

• George Dunbar

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Case studies

• the case studies

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Mitigation

• No penalty Reduced
• Student from overseas
• or has poor English 8 54
• Student finding course
• difficult 8 20
• Difficult personal
• circumstances 4 58

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First year mitigation

• Serious
• copying an essay 0
• fabricating data 27
• Less serious
• copying one paragraph
• uncited secondary source

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One paragraph copied

• First Year
• Warning or guidance 31
• Reduced or zero mark 54
• Final Year
• No penalty 4
• Warning or guidance 12
• Resubmit 11
• Reduced or zero mark 60

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One paragraph lightly paraphrased

• Final Year
• No penalty 4
• Warning or guidance 19
• Resubmit for pass 8
• Reduced mark 42

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Uncited secondary source

• No penalty 8
• Warning or guidance 27
• Reduced mark 46
• Zero mark 8

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Fabricating data

• No penalty 0
• Warning or guidance 4
• Reduced mark 8
• Zero mark 39
• Zero and no honours degree 11

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Complete essay copied

• Warning 4
• Mark of zero 77
• Re-submit for maximum pass 4
• Mark of zero and resubmit 4

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Allowing someone to copy

• No penalty 4
• Warning 4
• Reduced mark 8
• Fail / Resubmit for pass 15
• Mark of zero 46

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Students think
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Resubmission

• For
• Its extra work
• Against
• It is extra work

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Lunch

• Its a good idea.

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Recidivism

• Warnings, extra scrutiny
• Suspended sentences