Welcome to Be wise, don't plagiarise!

This website provides a single point of reference for Edinburgh Napier staff and students who have questions or concerns about plagiarism, the available resources and support, or any other related issues.

News: New guidelines for referencing practice and the use of Turnitin®UK have been published. Please view the staff briefing or the student briefing for guidance for your School.

For students the site provides,

• an overview of plagiarism and how to avoid it
• interactive resources to help improve referencing and paraphrasing skills in academic writing
• guidance on all aspects of using TurnitinUK, the text-matching software used in many modules
• a summary of the university's academic conduct regulations, and data protection information related to TurnitinUK
• interactive 'webwise' tutorials to improve web searching and web evaluation skills, and understanding of internet copyright.

For staff the site provides,

• information and approaches to help students avoid plagiarism
• guidance on all aspects of using TurnitinUK and GradeMark
• data protection and copyright information as related to TurnitinUK and GradeMark
• easy access to the information and resources provided for students.

Note: This website provides many links to external sites and these will open in a new browser window.

Edinburgh Napier University prides itself in upholding a high standard of academic integrity. For written work this entails ensuring that credit is given to the original authors of all source material and students are expected to demonstrate proper referencing practice in all their assessed work. Acquiring good referencing skills develops confidence in academic writing and helps prevent unintentional plagiarism. The University subscribes to TurnitinUK, the text-matching tool which is used to support acacdemic writing and to deter and detect plagiarism.

Please email any feedback or questions to bewise@napier.ac.uk.