E-Test

Independent/Self-Directed Learner

Taking responsibility for your own learning.

Academic Integrity

Being honest, trustworthy, and responsible in all aspects of academic work.

Plagiarism

Using other authors’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source.

Lateral Reading

The process of validating an author’s claims by looking for confirmation from other sources.

Scholarly Sources

Written by academics and experts in a field, sharing recent research and insights.

Peer-Review

The process where articles are reviewed by other experts in the same field before publication.

Skimming

Strategy involving reading quickly and superficially.

Scanning

Strategy where you look for something specific.

Referencing

Permits legitimate use of others’ work and helps readers follow up on sources.

Referencing Styles

Specific rules for how to reference someone else’s research ideas in academic writing.

In-Text Reference/Citation

Provided in the body of writing, including the author’s surname and year of publication.

Author-Prominent Referencing

Emphasizing the importance of the author as the source of borrowed ideas.

Information-Prominent Referencing

Focusing on the ideas being borrowed rather than the authors who developed them.

End-Text Reference

Provided at the end of writing in the form of a reference list.

Paraphrasing

Using a source in your own words instead of the original wording.

Summary

A condensed version of the original text highlighting the main points.

Quoting

Using the exact words from another source.

Writer’s Voice

Exhibiting control over the assignment topic and providing personal insights.

Synthesising

Combining information from multiple sources to support an argument.

Paragraphs

The building blocks for any form of academic writing.

Transition Markers

Words or phrases that create links between ideas in writing.

Simple Sentence/Main Clause

One complete idea with a subject and verb.

Complex Sentence

One main clause and one subordinate clause.

Compound Sentence

Two main clauses joined by a conjunction.

Active Sentence

The subject performs the action.

Passive Sentence

The subject receives the action.

Conjunctions

Words that join two main clauses to form a compound sentence.

Comma Splices

Incorrectly using a comma to join two or more main clauses.

Sentence Fragments

An incomplete sentence that may be missing a subject or main verb.

Run-On Sentences

Several main clauses strung together without proper punctuation.

Faulty Parallel Structures

Using inconsistent grammatical patterns in a list of elements.

Dangling Modifiers

Descriptive phrases that are not clearly or logically related to the words they describe.

Peer Evaluation

Students evaluating each other's work, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement.

reflection

the process of looking back over past events, thinking about and exploring what happened, and making changes based on your new understandings.

contract cheating

a student pays someone or enters into an agreement with an organisation to write an assessment for them and dishonestly submit it as their own work.