The fostering of academic integrity is given high priority at UWA and is supported by institutional policies and practices.

Academic literacy and academic misconduct

The University of Western Australia takes very seriously the matter of academic misconduct by students and has policies in place that define misconduct (including plagiarism) and the penalties that apply. The consequences for misconduct can be severe, including exclusion from the University.

All students are expected to make themselves aware of the definitions and the policies relating to academic misconduct, found at the websites below, and with any additional requirements or stipulations that may be provided by individual coordinators.

Academic conduct policies

Student Services provides an on-line plagiarism portal that defines plagiarism and helps you avoid it in your written work.

Turnitin Originality Checking and Plagiarism Prevention is used in the Faculty to allow both educators and their students check written work for improper citation or misappropriated content.

Requests for Extensions and Special Considerations

Requests for extensions of the submission deadlines for written work must be made to your Faculty via a Special Consideration Application Form.  You will be informed via email by your Faculty of the outcome of your application. If Faculty has approved an extension, a revised submission date will need to be negotiated with the appropriate staff member within the School (see School Contacts for Special Consideration below). Applications must be submitted to Faculty at the earliest possible date. The Special Consideration Application Form is at  http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/course

Extensions will normally be granted only in instances where an unforeseeable and unavoidable event, such as illness, prevents the work from being submitted by the due date. Extensions to the deadline will not be granted for holidays or clashing assignment deadlines.

Penalties for late submission of written assignments

A penalty for late submission will be applied to all assignments received after the deadline without an extension. Late assignments will be penalised by 5% of the available marks for each day after the published submission deadline. You should note that work submitted on the due day but after the submission time specified will be recorded as one day late.

Faculty Contacts for Special Consideration:

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Arts Student Office

- Phone: 6488 2091
- Email: arts-students@uwa.edu.au

Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences - Science Student Office

- Phone: 6488 7333
- Online enquiries via askUWA http://www.uwa.edu.au/askuwa/  

School Contacts for Special Consideration:

First Year - Hayley Hutchison
-  Email: hayley.hutchison@uwa.edu.au 
-  Consultation by appointment via email

Second & Third Year – Hayley Hutchison
-  Email: hayley.hutchison@uwa.edu.au 
-  Consultation by appointment via email

Honours  – Asst Prof Vance Locke (for thesis-related approvals) & Hayley Hutchison (for all coursework approvals)
-  Phone (Vance): 6488 3272
-  Email: vance.locke@uwa.edu.au or hayley.hutchison@uwa.edu.au
-  Consultation by appointment via email

Psychology Undergraduate Course Advisers:

Assoc Prof Troy Visser & Hayley Hutchison
-  Phone (Troy): 6488 3635
-  Email: troy.visser@uwa.edu.au or hayley.hutchison@uwa.edu.au
-  Consultation by appointment via email

Word length of assignments

It is important to write succinctly, and many assignments will have a set word length.

A word count must be given on the title page of all assignments. The word count itself should not include the Abstract or the Reference List, but must include all other sections. Appendices do not count, but these sections (which should be seldom used) must not contain information that is integral to the assignment. The word count given by a word processor is preferable; if counting words by hand, any character or character string preceded and followed by a space or a punctuation mark counts as a word.

Markers will stop reading assignments at the word limit and will assign a mark as if the read portion constituted the entire assignment. Written work that exceeds the word limit will not receive credit or be given feedback.