Good academic practice

Good academic practice is about approaching and completing your academic work with
integrity. Fundamental values of academic integrity include honesty, responsibility,
fairness, justice, and (self) respect for your work, learning and ultimately your degree.
These are the values promoted by the University of St Andrews, the academic community
of which you are a member. As a member of this community you are accessing, sharing
and discussing others' works, concepts and ideas, from which you will develop your own
knowledge.

It is important that within this community all members are judged on their individual
academic abilities, and that no student is allowed unfairly to take advantage over others,
to affect the security and integrity of the assessment process, or to diminish the reliability
and quality of a St Andrews degree. In short, it is important that no student participates
in any form of academic misconduct but that, instead, they develop good academic
practices which promote integrity, character and a work ethic worthy of the awarded
degree. (University of St Andrews, 2018)