Identifying Plagiarism
Case 4 - Group work
You are required to complete a group assignment in one of your first-year subjects. The assignment requires you to collaborate with two other students and to jointly present your results to your class as well as submit individual written papers for assessment (10% of final grade for the presentation and 30% for the written assignment). Your subject outline does not provide clear guidance about what is considered permissible collaboration but you do know that it is not appropriate to write just one paper that each student in the group submits for assessment. Your group collectively decides to assign each member to write a different section of the presentation and also shares research sources and brainstorms and shares ideas.
Does this kind of collaboration constitute plagiarism?