What will happen to me if I plagiarise?

The penalties imposed under University Staute 4.1; Discipline, for a charge of academic misconduct may comprise one or more of the following:

• a reprimand
• disallowance of the work concerned
• failure in the unit of which the work concerned formed the whole or a part
• suspension from the university for a specified period, or
• exclusion from the university.

There are clearly defined avenues of appeal against the findings of misconduct should a student be found guilty of such an act. Full details of the statute are available on the web at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/calendar/statutes/statutes04.html