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Department of Informatics

BCom Hons (Informatics) (Informatics)dule name

2014

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BCOM HONS (INFORMATICS) (07240172)

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS

UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

2014: Program1

Table of Contents

GENERAL INFORMATION .............................................................................................................................. 2

INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 – LECTURERS’ DETAILS ................................................................................ 3

First semester 2014 ....................................................................................................................................... 3

Second semester 2014 .................................................................................................................................. 3

INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 – PRESCRIBED BOOKS ................................................................................. 3

DATES AND VENUES: FIRST SEMESTER 2014 ................................................................................................ 5

DATES AND VENUES: SECOND SEMESTER 2014 ........................................................................................... 6

INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 – EXAM DATES AND VENUES ...................................................................... 7

First semester 2014 ....................................................................................................................................... 7

Second semester 2014 .................................................................................................................................. 7

SYLLABI .......................................................................................................................................................... 8

YEARBOOK 2014 ............................................................................................................................................ 9

E-MAIL ADDRESS POLICY ............................................................................................................................. 10

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WEB ADDRESSES ................................................................................... 11

International students should consult UP’s website for additional information: ...................................... 11

PLAGIARISM ................................................................................................................................................ 12

How to avoid plagiarism: ............................................................................................................................ 12

You may use material written by other people, but then the thing to do is to cite the material: ............. 12

Harvard Style: .............................................................................................................................................. 13

Avoiding plagiarism: A guide for students .................................................................................................. 13

What is plagiarism? 13

HARVARD REFERENCING, based on and adapted from: ............................................................................. 14

1 Subject to change.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

1. In total there are eight two hour contact sessions with lecturers (16 hours class contact). Class

attendance is compulsory.

2. During the first semester students have classes on eight Fridays from 08:00 to 17:15. During the second

semester classes are presented on eight Fridays from 08:00 to 19:30; in addition, the schedule for

KUB780 is available from Mercantile Law.

3. Part-time (working) students need to take only 8 Friday afternoons leave per semester to attend classes

(13:00-17:30) - the allocation of courses either for the first or second semester will not change from year

to year, but the allocation to Friday mornings and afternoons rotates as far as possible annually.

4. INF714 (Research methodology) is a prerequisite (50% must be attained) for INF780 (Research paper).

Both courses are compulsory.

5. Registration: Online only, from the 7th of January 2014

6. Classes start on 07 February 2014

7. Enquiries: Mrs Rhona van der Merwe ([email protected] or 012 420-6321).

8. More information regarding courses can be found on the following websites:

Informatics.up.ac.za/masters

Informatics.up.ac.za/doctoral

Informatics.up.ac.za/hons

Informatics.up.ac.za/postgrad

9. Each course carries 15 credits, with the exception being the research paper which carries 30 credits.

Overall a minimum of 120 course credits must be obtained.

10. At least five courses must be taken from this Department of Informatics. The remaining two courses

may be taken in other departments (e.g. the departments of the School of Information Technology or

the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences). OBS784 may not be presented for degree

purposes.

11. Pre-requisite for admission to the degree is an average of at least 60% for Informatics on third year level

or 60% for equivalent IT courses, as deemed applicable by the Department of Informatics. IT industry

experience may also be taken into account: a written application to Mrs Rhona van der Merwe

([email protected]) including a resume stating all details of such experience is required for

evaluation.

12. A student with an IT degree other than BCom (e.g. BSc(IT), BIS, BSc(IS)), who meets the requirement of

60% average for his/her IT majors, will be accepted for the BCom Honours (Informatics) degree.

However, he/she has to enrol for and pass the first year, first semester courses in Accounting (FRK111),

Business Management (OBS110), Economics (EKN110) and Statistics (STK110), if these subjects were not

part of the bachelor's degree. It is a requirement of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

that students who register in this Faculty should have a basic academic background in these subjects.

These additional courses may be done concurrently with the honours courses in Informatics. Summer

schools are available in Accounting and Economics. Equivalent courses may also be done through Unisa.

All BCom(Hons), MCom and DCom degrees will only be awarded if students are in possession of credits

for the above-mentioned basic subjects. Students must still complete their degrees in the maximum

time allowed and will not be given extra time to complete the basic subjects.

13. Please note that your semester mark may not be lower than 40% for you to be admitted to the exam.

There is also a sub-minimum of 40% on the exam mark in order to pass. Your final mark should be at

least 50% in order to pass the course. No supplementary exams or aegrotats will be granted.

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INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 – LECTURERS’ DETAILS

First semester 2014

INF713 E-Commerce Prof I Strydom

Dr J van Loggerenberg

[email protected]

[email protected]

0124204276

0124203013

INF714 Research methodology

(compulsory)

Prof C de Villiers

Prof N Bidwell

Prof A vd Merwe

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

0124203085

0124203709

0124203798

INF787 Managing end-users and

projects

Prof A Leonard

Dr R Naidoo

[email protected]

[email protected]

0124203375

0124203351

INF788 IS Development Dr R Naidoo [email protected] 0124203351

Mr P van Deventer [email protected] 0124205219

Second semester 2014

INF715 Enterprise architecture Mr P van Deventer

Prof N Kruger

[email protected]

[email protected]

0124205219

0124205322

INF716 IT Service Management Prof A Leonard [email protected] 0124203375

Prof I Strydom [email protected] 0124204276

INF785 Advanced Database

Systems

Mr J Pretorius

Dr H Twinomurinzi

[email protected]

[email protected]

0124204189

0124205422

INF780 Project

(Compulsory) Prof C de Villiers [email protected] 0124203085

INF790 HCI (Capita Selecta) Prof N Bidwell [email protected] 0124203709

Prof H Gelderblom [email protected] 0124203798

Dr M Matthee [email protected] 0124203365

INF791 Knowledge acquisition

and sharing

Dr Nixon Ochara

Dr H Twinomurinzi

[email protected] 0124203373

[email protected] 0124205422

KUB780 IT Law To be organized by Mercantile Law

INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 – PRESCRIBED BOOKS

Handbooks will be announced on ClickUP.

Subject Prescribed/Recommended ISBN Title Authors

INF713 Prescribed 9780273752011 E-Business and E-

Commerce

Management

Chaffey Dave

INF714 Prescribed 9781412902243 Researching

Information

Systems and

Computing

Oates, Briony J

Recommended 9780205457939 Social Research

Methods:

Quantitative and

Qualitative

Approaches

Neuman W Lawrence

Recommended 9780958500715 Constructing a Good Hofstee, Erik

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Dissertation: A

Practical Guide to

finishing a Masters,

MBA or PhD on

Schedule

Recommended 9781849200158 Theory and

Methods in Social

Research

Lewin, Cathy; Somekh

Bridget

INF785 Prescribed 9780470462072 Data Warehousing

Fundamentals for IT

Professionals : A

Comprehensive

Guide for IT

PRofessionals

Ponniah, Paulraj

Recommended 9780471255475 The Data

Warehouse

Lifecycle Toolkit:

Tools and

Techniques for

Designing,

Developing and

Deploying Data

Marts and Data

Warehouses

Kimball,Ralph; Reeves,

Laura; Ross Margy;

Thornthwaite Warren

INF787 Prescribed 9781133627227 Managing

Information

Technology Projects

Schwalbe, Kathy

INF788 Prescribed 9780077114176 Information

Systems

Development:

Methodologies,

Techniques and

Tools

Avison, David; Fritzgerald, G

Recommended

(ERP Part of the course

only)

9780557434077 Modern ERP: Select,

Implement & Use

Today’s Advanced

Business Systems.

(Second Edition)

Bradford Marianne

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DATES AND VENUES: FIRST SEMESTER 2014

DATES 2014

FIRST SEMESTER

COURSE

CODE

COURSE NAME VENUE

MEETING 1

Fr 7 Febr 08:00-10:00 INF713 E-Commerce IT Building 2-27

Fr 7 Febr 10:15-12:15 INF787 Managing end-users and projects IT Building 2-27

Fr 7 Febr 13:00-15:00 INF714 Research Methodology IT Building 2-27

Fri 7 Febr 15:15-17:15 INF788 IS Development IT Building 2-27

MEETING 2

Fr 21 Feb 08:00-10:00 INF713 E-Commerce IT Building 2-27

Fr 21 Feb 10:15-12:15 INF787 Managing end-users and projects IT Building 2-27

Fr 21 Feb 13:00-15:00 INF714 Research Methodology IT Building 2-27

Fr 21 Feb 15:15-17:15 INF788 IS Development IT Building 2-27

MEETING 3

Fr 7 Mar 08:00-10:00 INF713 E-Commerce IT Building 2-27

Fr 7 Mar 10:15-12:15 INF787 Managing end-users and projects IT Building 2-27

Fr 7 Mar 13:00-15:00 INF714 Research Methodology IT Building 2-27

Fr 7 Mar 15:15-17:15 INF788 IS Development IT Building 2-27

MEETING 4

Fr 11 Apr 08:00-10:00 INF713 E-Commerce IT Building 2-27

Fr 11 Apr 10:15-12:15 INF787 Managing end-users and projects IT Building 2-27

Fr 11 Apr 13:00-15:00 INF714 Research Methodology IT Building 2-27

Fr 11 Apr 15:15-17:15 INF788 IS Development IT Building 2-27

MEETING 5

Fr 25 Apr 08:00-10:00 INF713 E-Commerce IT Building 2-27

Fr 25 Apr 10:15-12:15 INF787 Managing end-users and projects IT Building 2-27

Fr 25 Apr 13:00-15:00 INF714 Research Methodology IT Building 2-27

Fr 25 Apr 15:15-17:15 INF788 IS Development IT Building 2-27

MEETING 6

Fr 9 May 08:00-10:00 INF713 E-Commerce IT Building 2-27

Fr 9 May 10:15-12:15 INF787 Managing end-users and projects IT Building 2-27

Fr 9 May 13:00-15:00 INF714 Research Methodology IT Building 2-27

Fr 9 May 15:15-17:15 INF788 IS Development IT Building 2-27

MEETING 7

Fr 23 May 08:00-10:00 INF713 E-Commerce IT Building 2-27

Fr 23 May 10:15-12:15 INF787 Managing end-users and projects IT Building 2-27

Fr 23 May 13:00-15:00 INF714 Research Methodology IT Building 2-27

Fr 23 May 15:15-17:15 INF788 IS Development IT Building 2-27

MEETING 8

Fr 6 June 08:00-10:00 INF713 E-Commerce IT Building 2-27

Fr 6 June 10:15-12:15 INF787 Managing end-users and projects IT Building 2-27

Fr 6 June 13:00-15:00 INF714 Research Methodology IT Building 2-27

Fr 6 June 15:15-17:15 INF788 IS Development IT Building 2-27

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DATES AND VENUES: SECOND SEMESTER 2014

DATES 2014

SECOND SEMESTER

COURSE

CODE COURSE NAME VENUE

MEETING 1

Fr 25 Jul 08:00-10:00 INF785 Advance Database Systems IT Building 2-27

Fr 25 Jul 10:15-12:15 INF790 HCI (Capita Selecta) IT Building 2-27

Fr 25 Jul 13:00-15:00 INF716 IT Service Management IT Building 2-27

Fr 25 Jul 15:15-17:15 INF715 Enterprise Architecture IT Building 2-27

Fr 25 Jul 17:30-19:30 INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing IT Building 2-27

MEETING 2

Fr 1 Aug 08:00-10:00 INF785 Advance Database Systems IT Building 2-27

Fr 1 Aug 10:15-12:15 INF790 HCI (Capita Selecta) IT Building 2-27

Fr 1 Aug 13:00-15:00 INF716 IT Service Management IT Building 2-27

Fr 1 Aug 15:15 -17:15 INF715 Enterprise Architecture IT Building 2-27

Fr 1 Aug 17:30-19:30 INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing

MEETING 3




Fr 15 Aug 15:15-17:15 INF715 Enterprise Architecture IT Building 2-27

Fr 15 Aug 17:30-19:30 INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing IT Building 2-27

MEETING 4




Fr 29 Aug 15:15-17:15 INF715 Enterprise Architecture IT Building 2-27

Fr 29 Aug 17:30-19:30 INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing IT Building 2-27

MEETING 5

Fr 5 Sept 08:00-10:00 INF785 Advance Database Systems IT Building 2-27

Fr 5 Sept 10:15-12:15 INF790 HCI (Capita Selecta) IT Building 2-27

Fr 5 Sept 13:00-15:00 INF716 IT Service Management IT Building 2-27

Fr 5 Sept 15:15-17:15 INF715 Enterprise Architecture IT Building 2-27

Fr 5 Sept 17:30-19:30 INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing IT Building 2-27

MEETING 6

Fr 19 Sept 08:00-10:00 INF785 Advance Database Systems IT Building 2-27

Fr 19 Sept 10:15-12:15 INF790 HCI (Capita Selecta) IT Building 2-27

Fr 19 Sept 13:00-15:00 INF716 IT Service Management IT Building 2-27

Fr 19 Sept 15:15-17:15 INF715 Enterprise Architecture IT Building 2-27

Fr 19 Sept 17:30-19:30 INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing IT Building 2-27

MEETING 7

Fr 3 Oct 08:00-10:00 INF785 Advance Database Systems IT Building 2-27

Fr 3 Oct 10:15-12:15 INF790 HCI (Capita Selecta) IT Building 2-27

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Fr 3 Oct 13:00-15:00 INF716 IT Service Management IT Building 2-27

Fr 3 Oct 15:15-17:15 INF715 Enterprise Architecture IT Building 2-27

Fr 3 Oct 17:30-19:30 INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing IT Building 2-27

MEETING 8

Fr 17 Oct 08:00-10:00 INF785 Advance Database Systems IT Building 2-27

Fr 17Oct 10:15-12:15 INF790 HCI (Capita Selecta) IT Building 2-27

Fr 17Oct 13:00-15:00 INF716 IT Service Management IT Building 2-27

Fr 17Oct 15:15-17:15 INF715 Enterprise Architecture IT Building 2-27

Fr 17Oct 17:30-19:30 INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing IT Building 2-27

KUB780 IT Law will be presented by the Department of Mercantile Law in the Faculty of Law. Contact: Sylvia

Papadopoulos

E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (012) 4203859

INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 – EXAM DATES AND VENUES

First semester 2014

Written examination / Examination assignment hand-in dates

INF713 E-Commerce Tuesday, 17 June 2014 (14:00-17:00) CBT Lab

INF714 Research methodology

(compulsory)

Friday, 13 June 2014 on/before 16:00

(no late submissions will be accepted) Dept.

INF787 Managing end-users and

projects Thursday, 19 June 2014 (14:00-17:00) CBT Lab

INF788 IS Development Tuesday, 24 June 2014 (14:00 – 17:00) CBT Lab

Second semester 2014

Written examination / Examination assignment hand-in dates

INF780 Research papers: final

submission (compulsory)

Friday, 31 Oct. 2014, 12:00

(no late submissions will be accepted) Dept

INF715 Enterprise architecture Friday, 7 Nov. (14:00 – 17:00) CBT Lab

INF716 IT Service Management Tuesday, 11 Nov. (1400 - 17:00) CBT Lab

INF785 Advanced database systems

(data warehousing) Thursday, 13 Nov. (14:00 – 17:00) CBT Lab

INF790 HCI Tuesday, 18 Nov (14:00-17:00) CBT Lab

INF791 Knowledge acquisition and

sharing Friday, 21 Nov (`14:00 – 17:00) CBT Lab

KUB780 IT Law To be arranged by Mercantile Law

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SYLLABI

INF713 E-Commerce

The analysis of the management, innovation and information systems aspects of the use of e-business technology

and strategies.

INF714 Research methodology (only for Informatics students) (compulsory)

This compulsory course explains different approaches that can be used for research in Informatics and gives practical

advice with respect to carrying out limited research projects. It also assists students in selecting suitable research

topics and writing research proposals in preparation for the research paper, which they will write in INF780.

INF715 Enterprise architecture

Enterprise Architecture (EA) involves comprehensive business frameworks that capture the complexity of modern

organizations, providing a blue-print for co-ordinating and integrating all components of an organization. The course

will illustrate all the aspects of EA, discuss the need for EA as well as various frameworks, methods and techniques of

EA.

INF 716 IT Service Management

All students will deal with the main aspects of IT service management addressing the 11 main management

processes, namely service support processes (Service desk management and the processes of incident management,

Problem management, Configuration management, Change management, Release management (hardware and

software)) and service delivery processes (Capacity management, Availability management, Service level

management, IT service continuity, Financial management for IT services, Security management for IT services).

INF780 Research paper (only for Informatics students) (compulsory)

• A research paper on a topic from the field of Informatics

• Prerequisite: INF714 (passed with at least 50%)

INF785 Advanced database systems

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the concepts of data warehousing and business intelligence

within a business environment. The term business intelligence or BI refers to a class of applications and technologies

used to gather, provide access to, and analyse data about business operations. Business intelligence systems enable

businesses to have a more in-depth knowledge of customer behaviour, and other factors affecting their business,

such as metrics on sales, production and internal operations. This knowledge helps managers to make better

business decisions. A data warehouse is a core requirement for BI. Online analytical processing (OLAP) tools and data

mining tools are used to provide different types of information from a data warehouse. For this course, the main

emphasis will be on data warehousing and OLAP.

INF787 Managing end users and projects

Main emphasis will be on IS project management using a case study to get practical experience in project

management.

INF788 IS Development

Study and evaluation of different systems development methodologies

INF790 Human Computer Inter-action (HCI)

Dramatic advances in technology have revolutionized the way that people interact with computers. This course

focuses on the design and evaluation of user interfaces. Discussions will include both traditional computer systems

and web-based systems.

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INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing

In this information age a lot of data is captured every day and recorded in databases, but the wealth of this data is

kept locked in the databases because relatively little mining is performed on this data. This course introduces you to

data mining in terms of:

• The data mining process - how do you mine data?

• The data mining techniques - an overview of the data mining techniques that can be used

• Practical data mining experience - a practical project mining real industry data to find unknown patterns

Product overviews - product demonstrations by data mining vendors

KUB780 IT Law

Introduction to the study of cyber law

• The place of cyber law in the legal system

• The nature and scope of cyber law

• Sources of cyber law

• Inception and influence of the Internet

Regulation of the Internet

• National/international

• Jurisdiction

Aspects of intellectual property law and the Internet

• E-commerce activities and the Internet

• Aspects of jurisdiction and signing of contracts

• Data protection and encryption

• Liability of Internet service providers

Advertising and the Internet

• Criminal liability in cyber space

• Constitutional aspects in cyber space

• The right to privacy/freedom of expression/information

Prerequisite: KRG 110 or BER 210 or BER 310 or BER 410 (passed with at least 50%).

YEARBOOK 2014

� Informatics (07240172)

([email protected])

([email protected]) Prerequisites for admission to the degree: A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology / Informatics with an

average mark of at least 60% for the Information Technology / Informatics modules on third year level. (If the

candidate does not have a BCom degree, certain basic courses have to be passed before the degree will be

awarded.)

A candidate with an IT degree other than BCom (Informatics) (e.g. BSc(IT), BIS, BSc(IS)), who meets the requirement

of 60% average for his/her IT majors, will be accepted for the BCom Honours Informatics, on condition that he/she

has to enroll for and pass the first year, first semester courses in Accounting (FRK111), Business Management

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(OBS110), Economics (EKN110) and Statistics (STK110), if these subjects were not part of the bachelor’s degree. It is

a requirement of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences that candidates who register in this Faculty

should have a basic academic background in these subjects. These additional courses may be done concurrently with

the honours courses in Informatics. Summer schools are available in Accounting and Economics. Equivalent courses

may also be done through Unisa. All BCom (Hons), MCom and DCom degrees will only be awarded if candidates are

in possession of credits for the above-mentioned basic subjects. Candidates must still complete their degrees in the

maximum time allowed and will not be given extra time to complete the basic subjects.

A minimum of 120 credits (1200 notional hours) must be obtained.

Compulsory modules Prerequisites

INF714 Research Methodology 714 (15)

INF780 Research Paper 780 (30) INF 714

Elective modules (choose five)

INF713 E-Commerce (15)

INF715 Enterprise Architecture 715 (15)

INF716 IT Service Management (15)

INF785 Advanced Database Systems 785 (15)

INF787 Managing end-users and projects (15)

INF788 IS Development (15)

INF790 HCI (Human Computer Inter-action) (15)

INF791 Knowledge acquisition and sharing (15)

KUB780 IT Law 780 (15) KRG 110

or BER 210

or BER 310

or BER 410

Any other two honours modules, which have been approved by the Postgraduate Coordinator of the Department of

Informatics.

Note: OBS 784 (Management of e-Commerce and e-Business) may not be presented for degree purposes.

NB: The Department reserves the right not to present a particular module if the specific expertise is not available in

the Department in a particular year.

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E-MAIL ADDRESS POLICY

It is the policy of the University of Pretoria to supply all students who study at the University with a life-long e-mail

address.

The official communication medium with students of the University is via the web interface Student Online Services

(SOS). This is accessible through the University’s Homepage.

Every student supplied with a unique “life-long” standard e-mail address. The format of this standard e-mail address

is:

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[email protected]

Every year during registration a student had the opportunity to save an alternative “forwarding” e-mail address to

which the student’s e-mail can be sent. This e-mail address will then be set up as the “forwarding” address.

Should the student want to change the e-mail address after registration it can be changed on Student Online Services

(SOS).

You are therefore encouraged to change and/or correct your e-mail address personally on Student Online Services as

and when necessary. The Faculty Administration no longer has access to make changes to a student’s email after

registration.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WEB ADDRESSES

Special exams: There are NO aegrotates or supplementary examinations on postgraduate level. Students who miss a

module test or exam will have to repeat the whole course.

Important Web addresses: Information on all Informatics postgraduate courses can be found on the web at:

Informatics.up.ac.za/masters

Informatics.up.ac.za/doctoral

Informatics.up.ac.za/hons

Informatics.up.ac.za/postgrad

Please contact the Client Services Centre at [email protected] (e-mail) for information regarding fees and bursaries,

and/or visit http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=121

Please consult the following websites for general information and for information on the correct application

procedure

Details about M.IT and other IT programmes in the School of IT:

http://sit.up.ac.za or Mrs Dawn Taljaard ([email protected]).

Information Science:

http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2074 OR http://is.up.ac.za.

Computer Science (Honours) http://www.cs.up.ac.za/content.php?spc=dc

Computer Science (Postgraduate) http://www.cs.up.ac.za/content.php?spc=dd

Please contact [email protected] for information on other courses.

International students should consult UP’s website for additional information:

http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=92

International students have to provide proof of SAQA accreditation, and either TOEFL/IELTS results:

SAQA: www.saqa.org.za

TOEFL (Test of English as a foreign language): www.ets.org/toefl

IELTS (International English Language Testing System): www.ielts.org

Also compare http://scarlacc.up.ac.za/CEatUP/default.aspx for information on certificate courses.

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For academic information regarding postgraduate courses in Informatics, please contact Mrs Rhona van der Merwe

at [email protected]

For administrative matters regarding Informatics’s honours, master’s and PhD (Informatics) courses, please contact

Mrs Catharina Muller at [email protected]

For administrative matters regarding the doctoral programme PhD(IT), please contact Mrs Stefanie Steenberg at

[email protected]

PLAGIARISM

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines plagiarism as:

http://www.m-w.com/ [Accessed 03 September 2002]

The Encyclopædia Britannica defines plagiarism as:

"plagiarism" Encyclopædia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=61807 [Accessed September

3, 2002].

� Plagiarism is illegal and you can be expelled from the university if you plagiarise.

� With all information available on the World Wide Web, it is probably very tempting to cut and paste parts of

articles for assignments and so on, but remember that this is illegal and that the lecturers can find the sites

very easily themselves.

How to avoid plagiarism:

There are a number of sites on the World Wide Web that deal with issues around plagiarism:

• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

• Avoiding Plagiarism

http://sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm#mexamples

You may use material written by other people, but then the thing to do is to cite the material:

Guide to Citation Style Guides

http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html

to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without

crediting the source

to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

the act of taking the writings of another person and passing them off as one's own.

The fraudulence is closely related to forgery and piracy—practices generally in violation of copyright

laws.

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CITATION STYLES, PLAGIARISM & STYLE MANUALS

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Citations.html

Harvard Style:

An updated version of the EMS document on Harvard referencing is available at:

http://www.ais.up.ac.za/eco/referencing.htm

References/Bibliography HARVARD STYLE

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation/harvard.html

Avoiding plagiarism: A guide for students

What is plagiarism?

You commit plagiarism when in any written work you use another person’s words, ideas or opinions without

acknowledging them as being from that other person. You do this when you copy the work word-by-word

(verbatim); or submit someone else’s work in a slightly altered form (such as changing a word with one meaning to

another word with the same meaning); and you do not acknowledge the borrowing in a way that shows from whom

or where you took the words, ideas or reasoning.

You must provide references whenever you quote (use the exact words), paraphrase (use the ideas of another

person, in your own words) or summarise (use the main points of another’s opinions, theories or data).

It does not matter how much of the other person’s work you use (whether it is one sentence or a whole paragraph),

or whether you do it unintentionally or on purpose. If you present the work as you own without acknowledging that

person, you are committing theft. Because of this, plagiarism is regarded as a very serious contravention of the

University’s rules which can lead to expulsion from the University.

Even if another student gives you permission to use one of his or her past assignments or other research to hand in

as you own, you are not allowed to do it. It is another form of plagiarism. You are also not allowed to let anybody

copy your work with the intention of passing it off as his/her work.

While academic staff must teach you about systems of referencing, and how to avoid plagiarism, you too

need to take responsibility for your own academic career. Speak to your lecturer if you are at any stage

uncertain as to what is required.

Information brochures on this topic are also available at the Academic Information Services.

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HARVARD REFERENCING, based on and adapted from:

• BOTHA, W.M. & DU TOIT, P.H. 1999. Guidelines for the preparation of written assignments. Pretoria: University of Pretoria (Academic Information Service.) [Online]. Available:

http://www.up.ac.za/asservices/ais/assign.pdf [Cited 6 August 2004].

• VAN DER WALT, E.J. 2002. Quoting sources, 2nd

ed. Potchefstroom: PU for CHE (Ferdinand Postma Library). (Scientific skills series.)

REFERENCE IN THE ESSAY REFERENCE IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOK – ONE AUTHOR:

Shingal (1992: 100) said that …

SHINGHAL, R. 1992. Formal concepts in artificial intelligence. London: Chapman & Hall.

BOOK – WITH SUBTITLE:

According to Halliman (2001: 100-105) …

HALLIMAN, C. 2001. Business intelligence using smart techniques: environmental scanning using text

mining and competitor analysis using scenarios and manual simulation. Houston, TA: Information

Uncover.

BOOK – LATER EDITION:

"Direct quote…" (Rob & Coronel, 2000: 100).

ROB, P. & CORONEL, C. 2000. Database systems: design, implementation, and management, 4th

ed.

Cambridge, MA: Course Technology.

BOOK – TWO AUTHORS:

Paraphrased information … (Berson & Smith, 1997: 100, 200, 300).

BERSON, A. & SMITH, S.J. 1997. Data warehousing, data mining, and OLAP. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

BOOK – MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS:

Hancox et al. (1990: 100) said: "Direct quote…."

HANCOX, P.J., MILLS, W.J. & REID, B.J. 1990. Keyguide to information sources in artificial intelligence /

expert systems. Lawrence, KS: Ergosyst.

BOOK – ANONYMOUS AUTHOR: In a critical bibliography, Modern historians on British history

(1970: 22), it is assumed that …

Modern historians on British history: 1485-1945: a critical bibliography. 1970. Ithaca, NY: Cornell

University Press.

BOOK – AUTHOR = INSTITUTION:

Paraphrased info … (University of Pretoria, Faculty of Economics

and Management Sciences, 1987: 4)

University of Pretoria. Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences. 1987. Guidelines for the

preparation of assignments.

BOOK – AUTHOR = GOVERNMENT:

Paraphrased information … (South Africa, Department of

Constitutional Development, 1993: 100).

South Africa. Department of Constitutional Development. 1993. Negotiating a democratic South Africa.

Pretoria: Government Printer.

BOOK – CONFERENCE PROCEEDING:

Paraphrased information … (International scientific symposium,

1989: 100).

International scientific symposium (May 9-11,1989: Hamburg, FRG). 1989. Proceedings: Natural

language and logic. Edited by R. Studer. Berlin: Springer. (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, no. 459.)

BOOK – COMPILED/EDITED:

The meaning of the word précis is summary or abstract (Concise

Concise Oxford dictionary of current English: first edited by H.W. Fowler & F.G. Fowler, 8th

ed. Edited by

R.E. Allen. 1995. London: BCA.

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Oxford dictionary of current English, 1995: 937).

BOOK – TRANSLATED:

Paraphrased information … (Mayr, 1992: 100).

MAYR, H. 1992. A guide to fossils. Translated by D. Dineley & G. Windsor. Princeton, NJ: University Press.

BOOK – ANONYMOUS AUTHOR, TRANSLATED:

Paraphrased information … (Anonymous, 1960: 100).

Anonymous. The song of Roland. Translated by F.B. Lanquines. 1960. New York, BY: Macmillan.

BOOK IN PARTS:

Paraphrased information … (McDonald, 1968: 100).

MCDONALD, L.C. 1968. Western political theory. Part 1: Ancient and medieval. New York, NY: Harcourt.

BOOK – PART OF SERIES:

Paraphrased information … (Sparck Jones & Galliers, 1996: 100).

SPARCK JONES, K. & GALLIERS, J.R. 1996. Evaluating natural language processing systems: an analysis

and review. Berlin: Springer. (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, no. 1083.)

BOOK – AUTHOR’S CONTRIBUTION IN BOOK EDITED BY SOMEONE

ELSE:

Paraphrased information … (Strzalkowski & Perez-Carballo, 1999:

114-115).

STRZALKOWSKI, T. & PEREZ-CARBALLO, J. 1999. Evaluating natural language processing techniques in

information retrieval. In Natural language information retrieval. Edited by T. Strzalkowski. Dordrecht:

Kluwer. p. 113-145. (Text, speech and language technology, 7.)

BOOK, NO DATE:

Paraphrased information … (Author, s.a..: 100).

Paraphrased information … (Author, n.d.: 100).

Geparafraseerde inligting ... (Outeur, s.j.: 100).

AUTHOR, A.A. s.a. Title. Place: Publisher.

AUTHOR, A.A. n.d. Title. Place: Publisher.

OUTEUR, A.A. s.j. Titel. Plek: Uitgewer.

BOOK – ACADEMIC DISSERTATIONS AND THESES:

Paraphrased information … (Silvestro, 1984: 100).

SILVESTRO, K.C. 1984. Computer knowledge acquisition from natural language explanations. Ann Arbor,

MI: University Microfilms International. (Ph.D. dissertation. The University of Connecticut.)

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLE – ONE AUTHOR:

Paraphrased information … (Hasselhoff, 1975: 98).

HASSELHOFF, A. 1975. Illuminated manuscripts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 12, p. 95-100.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLE – TWO AUTHORS:

Paraphrased information … (Varley & Immelman, 1972).

VARLEY, D.H. & IMMELMAN, R.F.M. 1972. Libraries. Standard encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, vol. 6, p.

618.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLE – MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS:

"et al." may be used.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLE – ANONYMOUS AUTHOR:

Paraphrased information … (Phoenicia, 1958).

Phoenicia. 1958. The encyclopaedia Americana, vol. 6, p. 28.

JOURNAL ARTICLE – ONE AUTHOR:

Paraphrased information … (Pavlov, 1998: 55).

PAVLOV, S. 1998. Sofia's choice. Bulletin of the atomic scientists, May/June 1998, vol. 54, no. 3, p. 52-57.

JOURNAL ARTICLE – TWO AUTHORS:

Paraphrased information … (Latteux & Thierrion, 1938).

LATTEUX, M. & THIERRION, G. 1938. Semi-discrete context free languages. International journal of

computer mathematics, March 1938, vol. 8, p. 3.

JOURNAL ARTICLE – MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS:

Paraphrased information … (Cocklin, Gray & Smit, 1983).

COCKLIN, C., GRAY, E.A. & SMIT, B. 1983. Future urban growth and agricultural land in Ontario. Applied

geography, April 1983, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 91.

JOURNAL ARTICLE – ANONYMOUS AUTHOR:

Paraphrased information … (Administration of technical

information groups, 1959: 8).

Administration of technical information groups. 1959. Canadian journal of chemistry, January 1959, vol.

30, no. 1, p. 7-14.

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PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY:

Paraphrased information …(Henczel, 2000: 211).

HENCZEL, S. 2000. The information audit as a first step towards effective knowledge management: an

opportunity for the special librarian. Inspel, vol. 34, no. 3/4, p. 210-226. [Online]. Available:

http://www.fh-potsdam.de/~IFLA/INSPEL/00-3hesu.pdf [Cited 17 March 2003].

ELECTRONIC JOURNAL:

Paraphrased information …(Roberts, 1996).

ROBERTS, K. 1996. Early Australian nursing scholarship: the first decade of the AJAN. Part 1: Scholars.

The Australian electronic journal of nursing education, vol. 1, no. 1. [Online]. Available:

http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/nhcp/aejne/archive/vol1-1/ajn1.htm [Cited 17 March 2003].

PUBLISHED PAPER AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY:

Paraphrased information … (Hearst, 1999).

HEARST, M.A. 1999. Untangling text data mining. Proceedings of ACL’99: the 37th

Annual meeting of

the association for computational linguistics, University of Maryland, June 20-26 (invited paper). [Online].

Available: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/papers/ac199/ac199-tdm.html [Cited 17 March 2003].

NEWSPAPER REPORT/ARTICLE – ONE AUTHOR:

Paraphrased information … (Peterson, 1987).

PETERSON, C. 1987. Falklanders fear weakening of UK resolve. Pretoria News, 21 January 1987, p.

12.

NEWSPAPER REPORT/ARTICLE – ANONYMOUS:

Paraphrased information … (Red-light row, 1987).

Red-light row: council split over call to set up legalised brothels. 1987. Sunday Times Metro, 1

January 1987, p. 1.

REPRODUCTION:

Paraphrased information … (Smith, 1972).

SMITH, J.B. 1972. Vertaling as 'n beroep. Fotostaat, Pretoria, Oktober 1972.

CLASS NOTES (usually not acceptable):

Paraphrased information … (Viktor, 2001a: 3).

VIKTOR, H. 2001. Data mining and knowledge discovery: class 1. Pretoria: University of Pretoria.

(Class notes.)

LETTER:

Paraphrased information … (Elazar, 1998).

ELAZAR, D. 1998. Letter to Walt Crawford, Israel Aircraft Industries, 1 June 1998.

MICROFORM:

Paraphrased information … (Chu & Schramm, 1967: 100).

CHU, G.C. & SCHRAMM, W. 1967. Learning from television. Bethesda, Md: ERIC Document

Reproduction Service, ED 014900.

SOUND RECORDING:

Paraphrased information … (Mandela, 1996).

Mandela, N. 1996. Interview with Max du Preez, SABC, 14 April 1996.

MORE THAN ONE SOURCE BY ONE AUTHOR, DIFFERENT YEARS:

Paraphrased information … (Stair & Reynolds, 1998: 100).

Paraphrased information … (Stair & Reynolds, 2001: 100).

STAIR, R.M. & REYNOLDS, G.W. 1998. Principles of information systems: a managerial approach, 4th

ed. Cambridge, MA: Course Technology.

STAIR, R.M. & REYNOLDS, G.W. 2001. Principles of information systems: a managerial approach, 5th

ed. Boston, MA: Course Technology.

MORE THAN ONE SOURCE BY ONE AUTHOR, SAME YEAR:

Paraphrased information … (Viktor, 2001a: 3).

Paraphrased information … (Viktor, 2001b: 3).

VIKTOR, H. 2001a. Data mining and knowledge discovery: class 1. Pretoria: University of Pretoria.

(Class notes.)

VIKTOR, H. 2001b. Data mining and knowledge discovery: class 2. Pretoria: University of Pretoria.

(Class notes.)

MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR WITH SAME SURNAME:

E. van Wyk (1972: 14) independently reached the same

VAN WYK, E. 1972…

VAN WYK, T. 1970…

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viewpoint as T. van Wyk (1970: 3).

ONE REFERENCE TO MORE THAN ONE SOURCE:

This is in agreement with various other authors (Blake, 1965;

Doyle, 1965; Smith, 1966; Zuary, 1967).

Listed separately in the usual way.

WEBSITE:

Paraphrased information … (Ananyan & Kharlamov, n.d.).

Paraphrased information … (Van Gemert, 2000).

ANANYAN, S. & KHARLAMOV, A. n.d. Automated analysis of natural language texts. [Online].

Available: http://www.megaputer.com/tech/wp/tm.php3 [Cited 17 March 2003].

VAN GEMERT, J. 2000. Text mining tools on the internet: an overview. [Online]. Available:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jimmylin/papers/Gemert00.pdf [Cited 17 March 2003].

E-MAIL:

Paraphrased information … (Barry, 1995).

THOMSON, B. Virtual reality. Personal e-mail (25 Jan. 1995).

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