Attendance and pro-active participation is compulsory and is marked as an assessment. If you cannot attend then please provide evidence of sickness or other valid reason for absence, otherwise non-attendance will be counted as absence for assessment purposes.

Special Consideration

Students who wish to seek special consideration because of illness or special circumstances should apply to the lecturer in charge with relevant documentary evidence. This is usually a doctor’s certificate. For both special consideration and extensions you need to complete the Application Form – Assessment Task Extension or Replacement Examination due to Medical and Compassionate Circumstances and/or Application Form – Extenuating Circumstances Application Form. These along with relevant information and instructions can be obtained frmo the Faculty of Arts office.

Extensions and deadlines

If due to illness or other valid reasons, a student is unable to meet a deadline, please contact the lecturer before the deadline in order to seek an extension (which may or may not be granted).

Any assignment handed in late, without authorised extension, will be penalised at a rate of 10% of the assigned mark per 24-hour period late, to a maximum of 7 periods, as per university regulations.

Assignments handed in more than seven periods late, without authorised extension, will not be marked and an automatic fail grade for that piece of assessment will be recorded.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is “the reproducing of someone else's intellectual work and representing it as one's own without proper acknowledgment”. Examples of plagiarism include: direct copying or paraphrasing of someone else’s words without acknowledging the source; using facts, information and ideas directly derived from an unacknowledged source; and producing assignments which are the work of other people.

Students have a responsibility to:

· Access and use available information provided by the University to avoid plagiarism;

· Declare sources in their work submitted for assessment, from which they obtain material or ideas:

· Retain drafts, notes and copies of all assignments submitted for assessment;

· Ensure that you do not make your work available to other students in any form for the purposes of plagiarism;

· Discuss any questions you may have about plagiarism with your kindly and supportive lecturer.

Specific Requirements

Students should write their assignments independently. Students are expected to produce their own work. This might involve students choosing, analyzing, summarizing and interpreting the (often competing) ideas of others, and developing argument and drawing conclusions. Students can: discuss assignments with other students and their tutors; communicate with one another in constructive ways about the learning process; and assist each other, e.g. by discussing the approaches that might be taken to assignment topics, or helping with the availability of reading materials.

Students must acknowledge an original author/creator for the ideas and concepts used in their work by providing a reference or citation. A reference is the written detail of the original source for ideas, which may be referenced within, and at the end of the assignment in the form of a reference list.

You may use quotations: exact words of an original author in written work. The quotation (exact words) should be placed in quotation marks and be accompanied by a reference. If paraphrasing (rewrite completely another author's words or ideas with the intention of presenting the author's ideas), it is vital that the passage is fully rewritten, including the sentence structure. Any short phrases or key words that are used should be handled as quotes. The source must always be referenced