HUMB1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abbreviation, Computer File, Deeper Understanding
27 Jun 2018
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Foundations for Professional Health Practice Course Notes
FPHP – Week 1 Notes – Academic Integrity and Reflective Practices
Academic Integrity Challenge Test
How can you breach academic integrity?
Cheating, Interfering with the learning of others, Plagiarism
Plagiarism is
using other people's words or ideas without crediting them
You cite a source by
using the authors' surname and date
What does interprofessional mean?
Two or more professions working collaboratively with a client
What is academic integrity?
Behaving honestly in your studies and taking responsibility for the integrity of your work
Credible sources are
journal articles, books, government publications
Paraphrasing is
to write the information into your own words and cite the authors of this work
Introduction to Academic Integrity – Online Module
Curtin Values and Academic Integrity
- Curtin students are expected to show academic integrity through behaving honestly in their studies and taking
responsibility for the integrity of their work.
- How can you breach academic integrity?:
- Cheating – e.g. cheating in exams/tests, using editing websites, using websites or other students’ work to
complete your work, or using your work from other units in this unit.
- Interfering with the learning of others – e.g. when students give other students your assignment, and then the
other students copies parts of that assignment; both students will be penalised.
- Plagiarism – e.g. not citing the authors of the works used in your assignment
- Refer to the Academic Integrity at Curtin booklet in the Resources tab on Blackboard.
- Curtin takes academic misconduct seriously and there are serious penalties for students found guilty of academic
misconduct.
Plagiarism = Stealing
- Plagiarism is the use of other people’s words or ideas without crediting them.
- When completing a university assignment you are required to use credible information from credible sources
(journal articles and books).
- You are then required to ‘paraphrase’ (write the information into your own words) and ‘cite’ the source using
numbers or authors’ name and date.
- If you do not paraphrase and cite, then you are plagiarising (stealing people’s work) and you are not giving yourself
the best opportunity to learn the information.
Definitions
- Academic integrity: behaving honestly and being responsible for your work.
- Citing: using the author’s name and date to acknowledge their work.
- Credible sources: where information must come from in university assignments.
- Paraphrasing: writing information into your own words.
- Plagiarism: use of other people’s words or ideas without crediting them.
Communications Toolkit Textbook – Chapters 1 and 2 – Notes
Chapter 1 – Making the Transition
Your First Semester at University
- Make a friend and get to know people.
- Get to know your faculty or department quickly.
- Become familiar with the many resources your library has to offer.
- Explore the university’s website.
- Read your unit outlines.
- Create a study plan.
Presentation of Written Assignments
- If there are no guidelines we suggest you do the following:
- Use a standard font such as Times New Roman, 12 pt (or a similar font).
- Use 1.5 line spacing.
- Leave one line space between paragraphs.
- Set your margins at the usual default settings (generally 2.54cm at the top and bottom of each page, 3.17cm at
the left and right).
- Add page numbers to each page, either at the bottom centre or the bottom right.
- Left align or justify your lines (ask your lecturer what they prefer).
- Type internal headings or subheadings in bold, and do not centre them.
- Print in black ink on only one side of plain A4 paper.
- Attach any required assignment cover sheet.
Chapter 2 – Developing Effective Study Skills
Reading Skills
Technique 1: Developing an Overview
- You should use this technique with all texts when you initially open them; then you can select to either skim or
scan, depending on the type of text you are reading and your purposes in reading it.
- First, look at any introductory material that will tell you about the text.
- Then look at the overall structure of the text to gain a sense of its context and organisation.
- Look at the structure of paragraphs without reading them. Are they generally long or short? This will give you some
idea of the complexity of the text.
- Before you begin to read, consider your main purpose in reading the text.
- Now consider what you know about this text without starting to read it. Is it likely to be straight forward and
familiar to you, or complex with new vocabulary?
Technique 2: Skimming
- Most suitable for a text that outlines a procedure, presents an argument or explains a concept or an idea in a
straightforward, logically structured way.
- When you skim, you read only the main ideas in a text by going through the following procedure:
- Read the entire introduction of this text.
- Read the opening sentence of each paragraph.
- Read the conclusion.
- If some ideas are not clear, go back to the relevant sections and read them in more detail.
- Depending on your purpose in reading, and the complexity and relevance of the text, make notes as you go or
after you have skimmed the entire text.
Technique 3: Scanning
- Appropriate for all texts that present ideas or concepts, however complex, especially if your purpose is to find
particular information, definitions, formulas or ideas, or to answer a particular question.
- Look for particular keywords or phrases.
- Pay attention to headings and to graphics.
- Look up keywords in an index or table of contents.
Strategies for Reading Complex Texts
Technique 1: Avoid It or Put It Off
- Bookmark or photocopy it and come back to it later in the research process.
Strategy 2: Look Up the Essential Words
- Learn to distinguish between words that are essential to the meaning of the passage and words that are peripheral.
- Look up only the essential words.
