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ASSIGNMENT POLICY
1 Presentation andCopies of assignments
The paper must be written in a script which is easy to read (such as Times New Roman), in 12 font, in 1.5 spacing, and with page numbers in the header or footer.
Students must be able to produce a copy of an assignment if requested.
2 Assignment cover sheet
All assignments must include a front page cover sheet which includes:
The cover sheet should include the following declaration: “Except where indicated through reference and citation, this is my own work. None of the material presented in this assignment has been submitted for assessment purpose in any other units”.
3 Submission of assignments
Assignments must be submitted to the tutor on the date/s specified, in either hard copy or by email. If you submit by email, please do not assume that your assignment has arrived until you are sent a reply to say it has been received. If submitting by email, please include a front page cover sheet as specified above as part of the same document, and not as a separate document.
Students who submit their assignments via the postal system must ensure the envelopes are post-marked no later than the due date for the assignment.
4 Return/Collection of assignments
Small policy exercises will be returned in tutorial groups. It is students’ responsibility to collect their own assignments. Students must not collect assignments that do not belong to them without written permission to do so. No assignment will be returned to a student via Australia Post unless a stamped, self-addressed envelope of suitable size is submitted with the assignment. If you would like your final assignment sent back to you, please provide your tutor with a stamped, self-addressed envelop.
Uncollected assignments will be disposed of (destroyed) after a period of six months
5 Extensions
An extension to Assignment Due Dates will only be given for exceptional circumstances which have affected the student’s ability to complete the work by the due date.
Extensions to the due date for submission of work will only be granted by the Unit Convenor. Requests for extension must be made in writing and agreed to in writing.
Applications for Extension must be made no less than 24 hours before the due date. You may be asked to produce the work in progress.
6 Late submissions
Any assignment submitted late, without authorised extension, will be penalised at the rate of 5% of the assigned mark per working day late.
Assignments handed in more than one week late, without authorised extension, WILL NOT BE MARKED and an automatic fail grade for that piece of assessment will be recorded.
7 Re-submissions.
You tutor, in consultation with the Unit Coordinator, may invite you to resubmit an essay if it is deemed that your work would have been worthy of a pass grade had you not forgotten to address an important issue as requested in the assessment criteria. Any such resubmission will only then be eligible to be marked to a pass grade (if the resubmitted work is in fact worthy of such an amended mark).
UNIVERSITY POLICY REGARDING PENALTIES FOR PLAGIARISM
One form of academic cheating is plagiarism, the reproducing of someone else’s words, ideas or findings and presenting them as one’s own without proper acknowledgment.
There are many forms of plagiarism, including the following:
Assisting another person to plagiarise material may be punished as severely as is plagiarism itself. Assisting plagiarism may involve a student lending work (or by posting it on the Internet for sale) which is intended for submission for assessment, or which has already been submitted, so that it can be copied and handed in by another student as that student’s own work.
Students may find it helpful to discuss assignments with other students and their tutors. The University encourages students to communicate with one another in constructive ways about the learning process. Students may choose to assist each other, for example in discussing the approaches that might be taken to assignment topics, or helping with the availability of reading materials. They should, however, write their assignments independently, except when they are asked to work on a project as a member of a group which is to submit a joint report, as equal contributors. In this case, except where the final written work consists of sections for which particular individuals take sole responsibility, the group as a whole assumes responsibility for it and the proper acknowledgment of any use made of the words or ideas of people outside the group.
The increased vigilance of the University in regard to plagiarism is in response to the perceived growing incidence of plagiarism. The new recommended penalties reflect the value the University places on academic honesty and how seriously it regards plagiarism offences. The University will protect its reputation for academic integrity by ensuring that serious and serial offenders, who wish to obtain an unfair advantage through cheating, are given penalties proportionate to the offences committed.
Students’ attention is also drawn to the following website which clearly lays out such rules and regulations with accompanying possible penalties: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/policies/academicmisconduct.pdf
GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES
If you have a complaint to do with this subject normal procedure is to raise the issue with the staff member who is closest to the issue, ie the unit coordinator. If this does not resolve the situation, the student should seek advice from the Course Coordinator before approaching the Head of the School of Public Health. Depending on the nature of the matter, the Coordinator may refer to concern either to the university through which you are enrolled, if you are enrolled in another university for your MPH for resolution through the procedures of that university, or to the Consortium, if the matter relates to the MPH more generally.