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Part 1Notedbelow is a copy of the student handbook regarding assessment offences includingplagiarism. Use this document as well as any other sources of information youcan find to answer in your own words the following two questions:1a)What is plagiarism?1b)Why is plagiarism a serious offence in British universities?(Maximum250 words)Part 2Oneof your clients is interested in investing in China Mobile, a major companylisted on the Shanghai stock market. Identify the four most important ratios orstatistics used to assess financial performance, down load these for the last 3years and use them to assess if the company is financially successful.(Maximum250 words)Guidelines for this coursework:This coursework must besubmitted online using Moodle on module ELC 310 before 12 noon on Thursday6th October. Use all available sources ofinformation, for example Yahoo finance is a useful website to obtainfinancial data.Use Harvard referencing whereappropriate. Marks will be awarded approximatelyas follows: 60% for content, 30% for structure and 10% for presentation.Good content means providing the most important information that isrelevant to the question asked. Good structure means organising thecontent in a logical order that clearly and directly answers the questionasked. Good presentation means a format that is easy to read which helpsthe reader to quickly and clearly understand your answer.  Examinationand Assessment Offences1 EXAMPLES OF EXAMINATION AND ASSESSMENTOFFENCESNote: these examples are not necessarily exhaustive1.1 Obtaining or attempting to obtain accessto an unseen examination or test paper prior to the start of the examination/test1.2 The introduction or use in an examinationor test of any crib sheets, revision or other notes, books, notes, paper or devices of any kind other than thosespecifically permitted in the rubric of the paper.[1] 1.3 Failing to comply with the instructionsof an invigilator or examiner, or with the printed instructions for candidates.1.4 Removing from an examination or test anyscript, paper, or other official stationery (whether or not completed) unlessspecifically authorised by an invigilator or examiner.  1.5 Being party to any arrangement whereby aperson other than the candidate fraudulently represents, or intends torepresent, the candidate in an examination or test (personation). 1.6 Communicating, or attempting tocommunicate with another student or with any third party other than theinvigilator/examiner during an examination or test.1.7 Copying or attempting to copy the work ofanother student, whether by overlooking his/her work, asking him/her forinformation, or by any other means, or knowingly allowing work to be copied.1.8 The submission for assessment of material(written, computer-generated, visual or oral) or ideas originally produced byanother person or persons, without clearly indicating that the materialis not original, such that the work could be assumed to be the student’s own.[2] 1.9 The unauthorised use of the work ofanother student (whether by taking a hard copy without permission or throughaccess to a hard disk or floppy disk)  1.10 The representation of  work produced in collaboration with anotherperson or persons  as the work of asingle candidate1.11 The inclusion in a piece of assessed work(other than an examination or test) of material which is identical orsubstantially similar to material which has already been submitted for any otherassessment within the University  1.12 Making false declarations in an attemptto obtain modified assessment provisions or special consideration (eg ofextenuating circumstances).  1.13 The presentation of data in laboratorywork, projects etc based on work purporting to have been carried out by thestudent but which has been invented, copied, altered or otherwise falsified. 1.14 Attempting to persuade another member ofthe University (student,  staff, orinvigilator) to participate in any way in actions which would be in breach ofthis Regulation 1.15 Being party to any arrangement whichwould constitute a breach of this Regulation. 1  This would include, for example, the possession or use of apre-programmable calculator/personal organiser where the paper permits use ofan ordinary calculator; the possession of unauthorised notes (in whateverform).  It could also include possessionof a mobile phone or any other electronic device, where an invigilator hadinstructed that such articles were to be deposited in a specified place.  2   The use of direct quotations orlightly paraphrased text without citing the source would be deemed to be anassessment offence.  Where work wassimilarly presented, without quotation marks, but with a clear indication ofthe source this would be identified as bad practice and markedaccordingly.  (In the latter case,overly-derivative work showing little intellectual input from the student wouldbe likely to be given a low mark, and if extensive the work would be almostcertain to fail).  Offences can alsoinclude the use of intellectual data or ideas without acknowledgement; copying,summarising or paraphrasing the work of another student or graduate;  commissioning another person to complete workwhich is then submitted as a student’s own work; the use of professional essaywriting services or work drawn down from the Internet.