Essays, Ethics And The 'p'-word

In this situation both students are in trouble and disciplinary action may be taken against both students. You should never lend your essay to a friend before submission no matter how desperate they are. Instead you can give suggestions and brainstorm ideas together and tell them what books or websites were helpful to you. There are severe penalties for copying work both for the 'provider' and the 'recipient'.

Essays without references at all will be graded '0'.
No references means that all the ideas you have written are your own originals! If that's not true then its plagiarism.
Saying that you forgot is not an excuse.

If you cant get to the library to find the reference you should search online for the magazine and issue number and date etc. Many magazines have good websites with all this information or you can try the SP library website. Make every effort to find that reference! If you really cant find anything, then take out all the parts of your essay that rely upon that reference source and submit your essay without it.

You should look for at least several (more than 3!) sources across different formats (book, journal/magazine, website) to ensure that you have a balanced point of view about the topic.
Only using one source may also be considered plagiarism because it shows that you have relied on just one persons ideas rather than reading several and making your own decisions about what you read.

Changing anything on an MC is a punishable offence and will be taken very seriously. Students may face a disciplinary committee, suspension or automatic failure for the assignment.
Don't even think about changing your MC!

All images you use in your essays should have references. You can choose to put a footnote next to the image title and a footnote at the bottom of the page or put a figure number and have a list of images in your bibliography.

While it is fine to get help with your work, you should always do your own assignments. It is your own responsibility to do your own work and is unethical to present another's work as your own. Also, the purpose of the assignment is for you to learn and improve, if you don't do your own work you will never learn. If you are stuck or unsure, please ask your tutors!

Copy and pasting of information from websites (or just typing up from a book) is not okay. You must summarise the information in your own words. Anything more than 2 sentences directly copied from a website will be considered plagiarism and will be punished with a straight '0' for your essay.

'Re-shelving' or hiding books in the library so no-one else can find them is unethical and very unfair to your classmates, particularly if there is only one copy of the book and it is in high demand.
You are grown ups! Gather all those in your class who want the book and organise amongst yourselves a borrowing or photocopying schedule that is fair and benefits everyone.

The meaning and ideas remain the authors even though you translate the quote, so you need to put quotation marks around the quote.
You also need to add a footnote referencing the original article and you should also add the original quote in Chinese in the footnote. Also add a note to say that you translated the quote into English yourself.

Essays with incomplete references will have grades deducted.
If you have no footnotes, endnotes or in-text citations, no one will ever know which of your sources you took the quote or information from. That means you have not attributed the ideas or words to their rightful author.

The dude at UCLA just did all your thinking for you! You need to give him credit.
Plus, in doing this you short-change yourself as you didn't learn anything - all you did was just copy someone else's ideas. When it comes to more difficult things later on, you won't be able to manage on your own because you never developed your own thinking skills.
Next time plan ahead!

If the article helped you to understand the topic in anyway you should add a reference to it in your bibliography.

It is okay to share reference sources with your classmates and even to discuss ideas together. Just as long as what you write are your very own words and own interpretation of what you read. If you have covered the same topic using the same sources there may be similarities between your essays but they shouldn't be identical in wording and argument.

If you have only changed a few words and the bulk of the sentence is still the authors words, then you should put quotation marks around their words, phrases or terms (in addition to the footnote). If you have substantially changed the sentences and inserted your own ideas, then a footnote to refer to the source is sufficient.

If you have already been graded on the essay or assignment, you cannot re-submit it for another subject. You must do original (non-recycled) work for every subject. Each time you produce an assignment you learn something, you build on previous knowledge. Recycling assignments means you don't learn anything.

Give yourself some credit for your own original work. Be proud of your work and stick your name on it!