Thursday, 17 June 2010

Plagarism Site

A good site sent to me via Douglas Gray.

Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Plagarism You Tube Clip

This an excellent film about plagiarism, sent to me by Nick Allsop and is from the University of Bergin

Friday, 11 June 2010

Walkthrough of dietary analysis for my students

In this blog entry I have included a video clip and links to help my students manage their time and learn the basics needed to collect, handle and analyse dietary data obtained as part of their undergraduate projects.

The video below describes how to collect the data and use McCance and Widdowson (avalible from DMU library) to collate the data.





The following links show:
  1. How to input the data obtained in the video into excel.
  2. How to transfer the excel data to SPSS
  3. How to use SPSS to look for correlations
  4. How to use SPSS to look for significant differences

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Plagarism

The following information is provided by the Clinical Sciences Library Officer Paul Cavanagh:

What should be referenced?:

You must acknowledge and credit the work of another individual or organisation used within your assignments, including:

• Published material, either in print or online, e.g.

– Books

– Articles in journals

– Information on websites

• Non-written works, e.g.

– Presentations and lecture notes – use with caution! Use published information where possible

• Other people’s work, e.g.

– The work of other DMU students, students at another institution or contracted third parties

For more information, please see the How To Avoid Plagiarism guide





For the avoiding plagiarism information, I’ve distinguished between accidental or unintentional plagiarism (where sources haven’t been cited or referenced properly) and deliberate and intentional plagiarism (where sources have deliberately been presented as the author’s own ideas).



Avoiding plagiarism and bad academic practice:

• “Plagiarism can be defined as the significant use of other people's work and the submission of it as though it were one's own in assessed coursework”

– “Bad Academic Practice can be:

– Accidental: low level duplication without citation for example errors made through carelessness or misunderstanding

– Deliberate: the passing off of ideas, data or other information as if originally discovered by the student.”

Taken from DMU Academic Regulations -

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Regulations for Undergarduate Awards

My DMU students...

Ever wondered what regulations we use, you should read the following link.

It is very important that you read section 2.3.3 about late work

Friday, 19 February 2010

Grade Descriptors

My Students,

If you wondered what the % actually means on your marked work along with the feedback take a look at the DMU link.