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Hi,
This is a note for all those who are asking for sample projects, and those who are distributing them… stop, and please read the guidelines provided in the OBU BSc Infopack. I have pasted a portion of it below:
” 9.a.iv) Cheating
All assessments are intended to determine the skills, abilities, understanding and knowledge of each of the individual students undertaking the assessment. Cheating is defined as obtaining or attempting to obtain an unfair academic advantage. Cheating or assisting someone else to cheat (including attempting to assist someone else to cheat) may be subject to disciplinary action in accordance with the University’s Disciplinary Procedure. The University takes this issue very seriously and students have been expelled or had their degrees withheld for cheating in assessments. If you are having difficulty with your work it is important to seek help from your tutor rather than be tempted to use unfair means to gain marks. Do not risk losing your degree and all the work you have done.
The University’s regulations define a number of different forms of cheating, although any form of cheating is strictly forbidden. These are:
> Collusion – except where written instructions specify that work for assessment may be produced jointly and submitted as the work of more than one student, you must not collude with others to produce a piece of work jointly, copy or share another student’s work or lend your work to another student in the reasonable knowledge that some or all of it will be copied. ”
You can read the entire thing from the Infopack; the link is as follows(pg 45-46):
https://business.brookes.ac.uk/undergraduate/2014/acca/files/information-pack.pdf
So…if you have general queries, there are people here that can help you out based on their experience. If it is a problem that you need a sample project to get through, then you don’t need a sample project, you need to hold a meeting with your mentor. Every single one of you must have a mentor, because you can’t do the project without one.
All the best with your RAP.
There is nothing wrong with looking at a few samples to get some ideas and know how to go about the thesis.
Oxford Brookes cannot find out that we have been looking at samples
The fact that Oxford Brookes cannot find out you have been looking at samples is not a justification to do so, any more than saying it’s OK to steal because you won’t be caught.
An ethical outlook means having integrity: you are honest and choose a course of action because it is right, not because you won’t be found out.
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Thanks for calling students’ attention on this. cheating is not only unethical but morally wrong.
CheersPLEASE NOTE
As the Forum moderator I endorse the comments of the OBU moderator, gromit and Mbecha Benedict and stress that as they have pointed out, cheating is wrong on every level.
1. There is plenty of good advice on the various forums about referencing, evaluation & analysis, comparator analysis, the SLS and presentations etc so the help is there if you need it.
2. OBU povides samples of the RAP and a link is provided in the Information Pack 2013-2014. If for some reason the link does not work then you should get in touch with OBU and I am sure that they will investigate and repair the link
3. Students may have no intentions to copy and use another person’s work as their own but inevitably the temptation to incorporate a few passages is there – they might see some ideas (say in the SWOT or PESTLE) that they may find useful and reword the odd bit here and there – this is probably only ‘human’ – but it is still wrong.
4. With Turnitin now in place all RAPs (including the SLS) are checked for originality. Should pieces of work show similarities with anything submitted by another student past or present (the Turnitin database contains most work submitted to many universities going back several years) then ALL parties will be investigated by the University’s Academic Conduct Office. Penalties can be imposed if cheating has taken place – copying parts of another student’s work is cheating and actually constitutes fraud – so it is in fact actually dangerous to let people you do not know see your work. Information from the ACO is usually passed on to ACCA who can remove students from their register of members, if cheating has been proven. If you read some of the student comments on the Forums, investigation from the ACO can be very stressful even for those subsequently found not to have been guilty of academic misconduct.
So please do NOT be tempted for whatever reason to ask other students for their actual work but please DO raise queries on the Forum and I and other contributors will do our best to answer them (I myself have many years experience of advising and helping students with the RAP, and there is not much about the RAP process that I do not know! and if there is something we don’t know the answer to, we can raise it with OBU)
AS THE FORUM MODERATOR I SHALL REMOVE ANY POSTS ASKING FOR SAMPLES – SO PLEASE DON’T WASTE MY TIME AND YOURS!
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