Programme handbook

All written assignments are submitted anonymously. We use Turnitin to check your work for originality (ie to confirm that the work you submitted is your own and not substantially copied from elsewhere. (For more information about Turnitin, see the section 4.12 Academic misconduct and policy on plagiarism). It is important that your name does not appear anywhere on your written assignment – instead, you should use your exam number, which will be something like B012345, for the title of your assignment submission, and also include it on the first page of your assignment. Your exam number is available on your student record on EUCLID and is also printed on your University of Edinburgh Student Card. If you do not know your exam number, please contact the Programme Administrator at mscct@ed,ac,uk. Note that your exam number is different from your student number which takes the form s123456.

Most written assignments will give you a word limit and you will be asked to write the word limit on your assignment. Written assignments that exceed the word limit by 50 words or more will be penalised, at a rate of 1% point per 50 words, up to a total of 10% points (interpreted as above). For example, a written assignment that is 50 – 99 words over the limit will be penalised by 1%, one that is 100 – 149 words over the limit will be penalised by 2%, etc.

Named essays, essays without exam numbers and essays which do not include a word count will not be marked and will be treated as late (therefore incurring penalties) until this is corrected.