When working or studying with another student, be sure to write your assignments independently, and not in collaboration with another student. It is quite acceptable to compare and discuss results with another person, but when submitting assessable work, the written work must be your own and not the result of a group effort.

Assignments must be submitted in the appropriate pigeon holes in the Gould Building. These are located downstairs opposite the first year lab (BIOL1006, BIOL1003) and upstairs in the reception area for all other subjects. A header page (available at reception) must be filled in and attached to reports submitted upstairs.

• Deadlines for submission of reports, essays and other written material will be decided at the beginning of a course. Since clashes of deadlines are inevitable, please bring these to the attention of the course organiser as soon as possible. Essays and Assignments are to be submitted together with a covering page into the box in the upper lobby of the BoZo building during working hours. Blank covering pages are available at the box site. Extensions may be granted in some cases especially if the reason for the request is notified before the expiry of the deadline. In the case of minor illness, you should notify the course organiser as soon as possible. For serious illness, you should obtain a doctor's certificate and submit a Special Consideration Request form to the Science Faculty Office. PENALTY FOR LATE ASSIGNMENTS is 5% per day including weekends. For example, if you get 65% for an assignment, but you handed it in on Monday when it was due the previous Friday, you will get a mark of 50%. Assignments will not be accepted after two weeks from the due date or after the marked assignments have been returned to the class.
  
• Fabrication, falsification of data, or copying (ie. stealing, cheating) the work of another student will not be tolerated. You are wasting both your time and the staff's time and are not learning anything. This applies to written work, laboratory drawings and data. You should take precautions to ensure that your work is protected from a thief or copier by keeping written work, laboratory books or computer disks in a safe place.   Both students will get zero for the assignment if copying or collusion are detected.
  
• Plagiarism (ie. copying work from published sources or websites and passing it off as your own) is a form of theft, and is unacceptable. You must include citations in the text and full bibliographies. You must render work into your own words.
• Details of the University's policy on academic dishonesty are at http://academichonesty.anu.edu.au/ (This site contains many useful features to help you refine your understanding of a range of academic honesty and plagiarism issues).
  Note the requirement that all breaches of this policy will be addressed - ie even careless breaches require “* a record stating that the student has been counselled including a description of the Code breach, countersigned by the appropriate Sub-Dean or equivalent, is placed on a central file maintained by the University for this purpose”..