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A third-party proofreader can be a friend, family member, paid professional or company. There are also a variety of online proofreading tools, which can also be used as proofreaders.  \nStudents are not permitted to engage a third-party proofreader to make more substantive changes to their work, or to produce any content on their behalf. This is editing or ghost-writing and is considered academic misconduct. Details about what is and what is not acceptable for a proofreader to do are listed below.  \n1. Students’ responsibilities  \n• Are ultimately responsible for the quality and content of the work they submit;  \n• Are ultimately responsible for deciding whether or not to make any changes based on the proofreader’s comments or suggestions from online proofreading tools;  \n• Are responsible for checking with course organisers whether it is appropriate to use a proofreaderin their assessments;  \n• Must refer their third-party proofreader to these proofreading guidelines and should declare the use of a proofreader in their work;  \n• Must retain copies of their work directly before and immediately after third-party or online proofreader input (i.e. with all suggested changes, comments or track changes comments added) incase they are called upon to show the extent to which a proofreader has influenced their work;  \n• Must proofread their own work before sending it to the proofreader or using an online proofreading tool;  \n• Must plan enough time to check over the proofreader’s comments or suggestions from online proofreading tools and decide upon which changes, if any, they will make to their work before submitting it;  \n• Must never use a translation tool to generate the text which is sent to a proofreader;  \n• In their submitted assessment, must acknowledge the use of generative AI if this has been used as one of the functions within an online proofreading tool.  \n2. Third-party Proofreaders  \nA third-party proofreader can be a friend, family member, paid professional or company who you use to read your work and make suggestions for minor changes in order to improve the readability of written English in an assignment prior to submission. Please note that this guidance does not apply to supervisory input by academic staff.  \n2.1 A Third-party proofreader may do the following:  \n• Edits to text may be made but only to indicate and correct minor issues. Minor issues relate to items of spelling, punctuation, grammar and syntax.  \nMinor issues are localised, typically single words or punctuation items within existing sentences. This is the only type of direct editing which is permitted.  \nThis editing must be recorded (e.g. using ‘Review > Track Changes’ in Microsoft Word) .  \n• Comments on text may be added to identify and explain more major issues.  \nMajor issues relate to errors in the text and problems with the clarity of written English.  \nMajor issues are more extensive, typically affecting whole or multiple sentences or sections. These types of issues can all be commented on, but not corrected by direct editing.  \nComments must be recorded (e.g. using ‘Review > New Comment’ in Microsoft Word) .  \n• Edits and/or comments can be made to main body of text or any text used in the legend or labelling of diagrams, charts, tables or figures. Issues identified might include word choice, tense, repetition, missing words etc. The proof-reader should include an explanation of why text is unclear, or what the alternate interpretations might be.  \n2.2 A Third-party proofreader must never do the following:  \n• Make untracked changes to the work;  \n(i.e. any edits must be made using e.g.‘Review > Track Changes’ in Microsoft Word)  \n• Identify, correct or add anything relating to the seq","cbCailwauBbGL70V","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailwauBbGL70V","pdf",103829,"English","# Students’ responsibilities\n# Third-party Proofreaders\n## What a third-party proofreader may do\n## What a third-party proofreader must never do\n# Peer review and Peer assessment","[{\"question\":\"What is proofreading, and why is it different from editing or ghost-writing?\",\"answer\":\"Proofreading involves making suggestions for minor changes to improve readability before submission. Editing or ghost-writing involves more substantive changes or producing content on behalf of the student, which is considered academic misconduct.\"},{\"question\":\"What are students required to do when using a third-party proofreader or online tools?\",\"answer\":\"Students must remain responsible for quality and content, decide which suggested changes to accept, check with course organisers about appropriateness, and provide the proofreader with the guidelines. They must also keep copies of their work before and after any third-party or online input, proofread their own work first, and plan time to review comments.\"},{\"question\":\"What actions are third-party proofreaders forbidden from doing?\",\"answer\":\"Third-party proofreaders must not make untracked changes, add new content, rewrite sections, or alter the sequence of information or line of argument. 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