Case studies

Academic integrity case studies

Stage-by-stage walkthroughs of the coursework situations students bring us most often: where they started, what each stage did, and the line OwnVoice refused to cross.

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The vague brief that hid two learning outcomes

Level 5 health and social care reflective assignment, 2,500 words, first attempt after a referral.

How decoding a woolly reflective brief exposed two unweighted learning outcomes and moved a referred assignment from description to analysis.

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Keeping an authentic voice under deadline pressure

Business management essay drafted across four evenings, with a part-time job in between.

How a writing profile caught late-night register drift before it turned into an authorship query on a business management essay.

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Referencing a literature review without accidental misconduct

Nursing literature review mixing Harvard and APA 7 across eighteen sources.

How logging page numbers at the point of reading prevented orphaned citations and unintentional plagiarism in an eighteen-source nursing literature review.

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