TOPIC 5: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & PERFOMANCE

Date: 12th July 2017

Time: 8:15 am - 10.05 am

Venue: Dewan Kuliah 2

Conducted by: En. Mohd Ikhsan Md Raus &

            En. Roslan Jamaludin

Assalamualaikum and hi! Today, in this post I am going to talk about plagiarism and how to calculate your GPA. So, let's get started with the first subtopic, the most common thing that happens in university. This topic was conducted by En. Mohd Ikhsan Md Raus.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism means the act of presenting another's work or ideas as your own.


Actions that considered plagiarism:

• turning in someone's work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credict
• failing to put a quatation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quatation
• changing words but copying the sentence scructure of a source without giving credit
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up majority of work, whether you give credit or not

Plagiarism can be prevented by simply acknowledging that certain material has beeen borrowed and providing the readers with the necessary information to find the source is usually enough to prevent plagiarism.

How to prevent palagiarism

Plagiarism can be prevented by 2 ways;

1. Paraphrasing means express the meaning (of the writer, speaker or someting witten or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.
2. Referencing    means provide a book or article with citation of authorities.

Steps to paraphrasing:

• Reword: You can place the original words by using synonyms. E.g.. the word remain can be replaced by stay 

• Rearrange: You can change the original sentence from passive to active to active to passive, and  nice versa. E.g. Adli kicks the ball can be changed to The ball was kicked by Adli.

• Recheck: Make sure the word or sentence you have re-do have the same meaning as the original topic

Steps to referencing:

• Include a reference page or page of works cited at the end of your paper
• Check the guidelines for citing sources properly and make sure that the page meets the document formatting guidelines used by UiTM
• Look for the APA 6th formatting style
• Be sure edit your research paper carefully and check for plagiarism before submitting it
• Refer to your instructor/lecturer for the turnitin account to access your paraphrasing and other anti-plagiarism skills

Next, I am going to talk about how calculate to GPA. This topic was conducted by En. Roslan Jamaludin.

                                        CALCULATING GRADE POINT AVERAGE

The final examination results and asssessments at the end of every semester are assigned a Grade Point Average (GPA) and a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) which represent a student's academic achievement.

GPA calculation

Every semester, students will receive their GPA result based on the grades they got in all their courses in the semester. The formula on how to calculate GPA:

To find GPA weighted by credit hours;

1. Multiply each numeric grade value by the number of credits the course was worth

2. Add these numbers together 

3. Divide by the total numbers together

CGPA refers to overall GPA, which includes dividing the number of quality points earned in all courses attempted by the total credit hours in all attempted courses. CGPA calculation formula;

FAILURE AND DISMISSAL

Students with extremely unsatisfactory academic perfomance will/can be dismissed from his/her study. The status Dismissed (D) that can be given to the students include:

GPA WORKSHEET ACTIVITES

We were given a task from En. Roslan Jamaludin to calculate Amelia's GPA. This is my answer based on what I count using the formulas above:

Please excuse my handwriting. I know it's bad xD. Okay I think that's all for today. See you guys next topic! Insyaallah. Bye guys!