MGT200 Small Business Management Assignment 1 & 2 Brief Semester Feb 2026 | Help University

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Honesty And Responsibility

Academic integrity is an important tenet for HELP University (the “University”). In pursuit of the highest standards of academic integrity, the University holds its students to the highest ethical standards defined by the Rules and Regulations section of the Academic Handbook. All students studying a HELP University programme are subjected to and are bound by the Student Academic Misconduct Rule to assure academic honesty. Students are required to sign a pledge on the assignment cover sheet before submitting your assignments.

What Is Plagiarism?

1. quote, paraphrase or summarise someone else’s ideas, theories or data, in whole or in part, without appropriate acknowledgement;
2. borrow ideas, opinion or words, in whole or in part, from other sources without properly crediting the author(s);
3. use any facts, statistics, diagrams or graphs, in whole or in part, without acknowledging the source clearly;
4. claim or imply original authorship of someone else’s ideas, theories or data, in whole or in part, as your own;
5. employ or allow someone to help to revise, amend or write your work and pass off as your own original work;
6. collaborate with or allow other students to copy your work; and
7. draw on sources more than what you have acknowledged by citations.

Penalties For Plagiarism

The Turnitin Similarity Index for all programmes offered should be not more than 20%.

Penalties for plagiarism ranges from mark reduction for the assignment to expulsion from the University. If plagiarism has been found to have occurred, the action(s) taken will be determined by the forms of plagiarism implicated:

1. Complete plagiarism
   Verbatim copying another person’s work without acknowledgement

   • To be referred to a panel for further investigation. If the student is found to be guilty, a grade “FL” is to be awarded for the subject.

2. Substantial plagiarism (Turnitin Similarity Index ≥ 30%)
   Near-verbatim copying another person’s work by simply altering the order of the sentences or the format of presentation or by changing a few words or phrases without acknowledgement.

   • Based on a report submitted by the lecturer in charge of the subject, a Zero mark will be awarded for the said assessment.

3. Minimal plagiarism (Turnitin Similarity Index ≥ 20%)
   Paraphrasing by changing and/or eliminating some words without proper acknowledgement.

   • Based on a report submitted by the lecturer in charge, a deduction of up to 50% of marks the student is entitled to receive for the said assessment.