To: Directors of Studies in History, Themes ... - Faculty of History

D2. Late submission: Essays submitted late without permission will not be marked. Permission to submit
late will only be given in the most exceptional circumstances. Application for an extension must be
made through your tutor, who should direct his or her letter to the Secretary of the Faculty Board. If
the reasons given in the application are deemed sufficient and if the Secretary of the Faculty Board
concurs with such an extension, the Faculty Board may grant a brief extension, to a specified date by
which the work must be submitted. An essay submitted later than the date specified by the Board or in
the relevant regulation, if no extension has been granted by the Board, will not be accepted.
D3. You must provide two hard copies of your Long Essay and one electronic copy on CD or disk (not
memory stick). It is important that no identifying information appears on any of these copies
except for your candidate number. Regrettably, failure to submit all three copies may result in your
essay not being marked.
The electronic version should be in either Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx) or rich text format
(.rtf). If you are not using Microsoft Word to write your essay you can still usually save it as a Word
document, or in rich txt format. Do not worry if the layout is affected - the examiners will be reading the
printed document and the electronic copy is only used to verify the word count and, possibly, to be
checked with Turnitin anti-plagiarism software. The file names should be in the following formats (.doc
may be replaced by .docx or .rtf depending on the file format you are using:
HistPt1XXX.doc where XXX represents your candidate number (this may be 1, 2, or 3 digits long).
Use your candidate number only - not your name.
You are responsible for providing your own CD. You can copy files to CD on the PWF computers in the
Seeley Library. Please ensure that you allow yourself time to do this.
D4. Sign the Declaration Sheet concerning plagiarism and hand it in separately (unbound) when you
submit the essay.
Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of the work of others as if it were original work. In the context of
an examination, this will mean passing off the work of others as a candidate’s own to gain unfair
advantage. This will not be tolerated by the Faculty of History and, when detected, will lead to serious
penalties, which may (in severe instances) extend to failure to obtain a degree. To avoid such penalties,
candidates must leave examiners in no doubt as to which parts of any submission are original, which
derivative. Work submitted for assessment in the Faculty of History will be subjected to random
screening using Turnitin UK, and will also be subjected to screening if the Examiners judge that there is
reason for investigation of a specific piece of work. The Faculty will select up to five percent of each
submission by use of random number generation for submission to the software. The resulting
originality reports will only be referred to the Examiners responsible for the academic assessment of the
work if there is prima facie evidence of plagiarism or poor academic practice. You will be asked to
affirm your consent to this process at the point of submission of your long essay. For further
information, please refer to the Faculty’s Statement on Plagiarism at:
http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/plagiarism-student-declaration.pdf.
D5. Complete both Cover Sheets and staple or securely attach one to the front of each hard copy,
ensuring that all information is clearly legible.
D6. Please note that the essay will not be returned after the completion of the class list, but will be retained
by the Board of Examiners like an examination script. If you wish to keep a copy for your own
purposes, you should bear this in mind before submitting the essay.