Assignment Submission Guidelines

Formatting

• Use one-inch margins on all sides of the page (top, bottom, left, and right).
• Include a title page with the essay title, your name, course name and number, your student ID number, and the date of submission.
• Type or generate your assignments with a word-processor (they should not be hand written).
• Double-space the lines in your document.
• Use a standard, 12-point font.

Content

Ensure that you have answered all required questions.

Quality

• Ensure that sentences flow smoothly from one to another, using appropriate transitions as needed.
• Be correct and consistent with spelling and punctuation.
• Write your papers in a tone appropriate for an academic setting (not chatty), free of slang expressions, clichés, and short, unconnected sentences.

Plagiarism

Take care to avoid plagiarism. Generally, when something is well established (such as that HIV is the cause of AIDS or that passive smoking causes disease), no reference citation is required. But where an idea is unproven or speculative, it is very important that you give one or more references. Without correct referencing you are taking someone else’s ideas and making it sound like they are yours. If you do not reference the ideas of others appropriately, it can be called plagiarism. If you are unsure about the meaning and parameters of plagiarism, ask your tutor. It is much easier to clarify than to have your work returned to you with a charge of plagiarism, which may come with serious penalties.

AU Plagiarism Policy