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Theme 1: Academic Integrity & Plagiarism
1. What is the core principle of academic integrity?
a) Getting the best grades possible.
b) Being honest and responsible in your academic work.
c) Using as many sources as you can find.
d) Agreeing with your lecturer's opinion.
2. What is plagiarism?
a) Using complex vocabulary in your writing.
b) Paraphrasing a source and citing it correctly.
c) Presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own.
d) Collaborating with a classmate on an assignment.
,3. Submitting the same assignment for two different modules without permission is
known as:
a) Collusion
b) Self-plagiarism
c) Fabrication
d) Paraphrasing
4. Which of the following is NOT a form of plagiarism?
a) Copying and pasting text from a website without quotation marks or a citation.
b) Buying an essay online and submitting it as your own.
c) Using an idea from a lecture and developing it with your own original examples and
analysis.
d) Paraphrasing a paragraph by changing a few words but keeping the original structure,
without a citation.
5. "Collusion" in an academic context refers to:
a) Working together in a study group.
b) Unauthorized collaboration on an assignment meant to be individual work.
c) Citing your sources correctly.
d) Disagreeing with a peer's point of view.
6. Why is academic integrity important?
a) It protects the value of your qualification and the university's reputation.
b) It makes assignments easier to complete.
, c) It is only important for postgraduate students.
d) It ensures you never fail an assignment.
7. What should you do if you are unsure about the rules of referencing?
a) Guess and hope for the best.
b) Ask your lecturer, tutor, or consult the official referencing guide.
c) Copy a friend's referencing style.
d) Avoid using sources altogether.
Theme 2: Referencing and Citation
8. What is the purpose of a citation within the text (in-text citation)?
a) To make your essay look more professional.
b) To give the full biography of the author.
c) To briefly acknowledge the source of an idea or quote right where you use it.
d) To fill up space to meet the word count.
9. A reference list at the end of a document should:
a) List all the sources you read during your research, even if you didn't cite them.
b) Only contain the sources that were most difficult to find.
c) Provide full publication details for every source cited in your text.
d) Be in alphabetical order by the title of the source.
10. Which is the correct in-text citation for a direct quote, according to a typical author-
date style?
a) (p. 25, Smith 2020)