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University of South Africa's mission is to advance research, knowledge development guided by the following three terms: 

DEFINITION OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:

The Unisa 's definition of academic integrity as the meaningful and concerted effort to ensure concern for human dignity, honesty, trust, fairness, truthfulness, accuracy, respect and responsibility in teaching, research and community engagement.

QUALITY:

Teaching, research and community engagement must meet the national and international standards det for academic work.

GOOD PRACTICE:

refers to the disciplinary rules in all disciplines and includes, amongst others, aspects related to experimentation, data gathering, presentation of results, referencing and writing as required by every discipline.

Unisa's Academic Integrity Transgressions:

Academic integrity transgression refers to a conduct or omission in any teaching and learning, community engagement or research endeavor that violates the values associated with academic integrity and includes any act that is defined to give an unfair or undeserved academic advantage. an important risk associated with academic integrity of academic outputs by UNISA employees and students.

Academic outputs refer to all academic and scholarly works artistic works, electronic works, literary works, multimedia products, research outputs, written or otherwise, created by employees and students for teaching and learning, community engagement or research.

All academic activities including outputs, written or otherwise, submitted by employees, research associates or students are expected to be based on sound ethical grounds and should be the results of a person's own skill and labour. 

Students have the responsibility to uphold the Academic Integrity Policy.

Students have the responsibility to maintain the academic integrity principles set out below in the production and presentation of academic outputs, regardless of the presentation format and/or work type:

• student should submit his/her own original work. (Except in in group work)
• student should acknowledge other people's work by way of referencing or citing (using the correct referencing style like Harvard or APA or CHICANCO etc.)
• No student shall exhibit or submit the following forms of works multimedia, electronic, artistic of others as their own.
• student should accurately indicate the download/access date and uniform resources locator (URL) of the internet web page or other electronic sources.
• no student should allow another person's to use or copy or present his/her academic output as their own.
• student must adhere to the rules of assignments whether they venue based or not.
• each student is required to attach the declaration of Originality see below.