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.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
demonstrate knowledge of good academic practice and how to build it into your studies
understand how to avoid inappropriate or bad academic practice
show knowledge of techniques on how to avoid plagiarism.
This course has helped me to understand clearly what good academic practice entails, which includes: how to write in my own words, collaborative and collusion, appropriate referencing, and plagiarism in order to avoid academic penalties.