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Access to the Composites Laboratory (Brunel 007)
Only students who have attended the talk on Health and
Safety, Materials Handling and Disposal will be allowed to work in Brunel 007.
It is essential that all students are aware of the COSHH implications of the
chemicals to be used and undertake a
risk assessment of
processes and procedures.
You must submit your coursework via the coursework submission
desk at the Faculty of Science and Technology Reception in Smeaton. You must bring your University Card with you as this must
be scanned. You should give due consideration to your personal time management
to ensure that coursework is submitted in plenty of time prior to the deadline.
Coursework can be submitted at any time ahead of the deadline; however, the
Faculty cannot take any responsibility for late submission due to late arrival,
queues, etc. Please note that the University enforces a penalty (zero percent
for work submitted after the published deadline without valid extenuating
circumstances). Late arrival for submission or queues will not be considered as
valid extenuating circumstances (see University student handbook on the portal
for details). Scanning priority will be given to students with an impending
deadline.
You must ensure your coursework is ready for submission (formatted, stapled, a
completed coursework submission front sheet, etc) PRIOR to attending the
coursework submission desk; otherwise you will be asked to return later – this
is to keep queue waiting time to a minimum.
See the regulations on Late Coursework and Extenuating Circumstances for the official version in detail.
There are normally 60 credits in a 12 week term. Effectively you should dedicate 2 weeks of effort to each 10 credit module and allocate your time pro-rata to the weighting of each assignment. A coursework worth 50% of the module marks on a ten credit module should take you one week - in practice a minimum of 40 hours preferably spread evenly between the assignment being declared and the given deadline.
General requirements for each classification of an honours degree
In addition to the normal resources (the Library, Voyager catalogue, TalisList reading lists, ✓TOCs and the associated e-resources via the Student Portal) do note that there is a subject index to the information on my Teaching Support Materials web pages covering all the modules I teach. For guidance on referencing (and hence how to minimise accusations of plagiarism) see Examples of how to cite the references in your reports.
Plagiarism is an offence under the university regulations on examination and assessment offences. It is defined as the representation of another person’s work (including another student’s) as your own, without acknowledging the source. It is the failure to acknowledge others’ work/ideas as the source which constitutes plagiarism. You can be guilty of plagiarism even if you did not intend to imply that the work was your own. For more information, see my plagiarism web-page.
Referencing the work of others
Three samples of marked coursework (one each of good, average and poor) will be copied for the module quality records. These may subsequently be made available to external assessment teams for higher education quality assurance or professional accreditation. I will assume that you give permission for your work to be archived for this purpose unless you include a letter with your submission stating that you withhold permission and stating your reasons (e.g. data classified as commercial-in-confidence has been released by a company with which you are associated).