This free course, Developing good academic practice, is intended to help you develop good academic practices in your studies and when producing assignments and completing assessments. Although designed as a course to work through, the content can also be used to dip in and out of, if you feel you need to improve your skills in a particular area.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 What is good academic practice?
- 1 What is good academic practice?
- 1.1 Good academic practice
- 1.2 Demonstrating your academic abilities
- 1.3 Reproducing someone else’s words
- 1.4 Inappropriate academic practice
- 1.5 When does poor academic practice become a major problem?
- 1.6 Summary
- 1.7 Quiz
- 2 Writing in your own words
- 2 Writing in your own words
- 2.1 What do we mean by ‘writing in your own words’?
- 2.2 Quiz
- 3 Collaboration versus collusion
- 3 Collaboration versus collusion
- 3.1 Good collaborative practices
- 3.2 What is collusion?
- 3.3 Using extracts from spoken and online discussions
- 3.4 Collaborative group answers
- 3.5 Quiz
- 4 Common knowledge
- 4 Common knowledge
- 4.1 General examples
- 4.2 Subject-specific examples
- 4.2.1 Arts
- 4.2.2 Health and Social Care
- 4.2.3 Maths, Computing and Technology
- 4.2.4 Science
- 4.2.5 Social Sciences
- 4.3 Quiz
- 5 Referencing
- 5 Referencing
- 5.1 Why should you cite references?
- 5.2 Alphabetical referencing
- 5.3 Numerical referencing
- 5.4 Quoting
- 5.5 Quiz
- 6 Why do students plagiarise?
- 6 Why do students plagiarise?
- 6.1 Common problems
- 6.2 Quiz
- 7 Test your understanding of good academic practices
- 7 Test your understanding of good academic practices
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
