Developing good academic practice

This free course, Developing good academic practice, is intended to help you develop good academic practices in your studies and when producing assignments and completing assessments. Although designed as a course to work through, the content can also be used to dip in and out of, if you feel you need to improve your skills in a particular area.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 What is good academic practice?
• 1 What is good academic practice?
• 1.1 Good academic practice
• 1.2 Demonstrating your academic abilities
• 1.3 Reproducing someone else’s words
• 1.4 Inappropriate academic practice
• 1.5 When does poor academic practice become a major problem?
• 1.6 Summary
• 1.7 Quiz
• 2 Writing in your own words
• 2 Writing in your own words
• 2.1 What do we mean by ‘writing in your own words’?
• 2.2 Quiz
• 3 Collaboration versus collusion
• 3 Collaboration versus collusion
• 3.1 Good collaborative practices
• 3.2 What is collusion?
• 3.3 Using extracts from spoken and online discussions
• 3.4 Collaborative group answers
• 3.5 Quiz
• 4 Common knowledge
• 4 Common knowledge
• 4.1 General examples
• 4.2 Subject-specific examples
• 4.2.1 Arts
• 4.2.2 Health and Social Care
• 4.2.3 Maths, Computing and Technology
• 4.2.4 Science
• 4.2.5 Social Sciences
• 4.3 Quiz
• 5 Referencing
• 5 Referencing
• 5.1 Why should you cite references?
• 5.2 Alphabetical referencing
• 5.3 Numerical referencing
• 5.4 Quoting
• 5.5 Quiz
• 6 Why do students plagiarise?
• 6 Why do students plagiarise?
• 6.1 Common problems
• 6.2 Quiz
• 7 Test your understanding of good academic practices
• 7 Test your understanding of good academic practices
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements