First
of all, let me have a short briefing on Academic Integrity before go into the
main topic where why it is important. Academic Integrity is defined as a
culture of honest and mutual trust; it is the ways to show the acknowledgement
of other’s ideas works and images where the knowledge was being developed.
(UWE, 2012)In my point of view, Academic Integrity is important for all members
of University, no matter whom you are, having a responsible manner is adhering
to honest method of learning and teaching.
What's
more, academic integrity did show the level of honestly of a particular student
when doing their work. With the advancement of technology, information is at
your finger tips. Being a student, we should not have the behaviour of “cheating”
where we copying other’s idea from World Wide Web and paste it in our work
without giving any credit to them. Plagiarism considers as academic dishonestly
and it was an act of fraud. Sadly to say that it was a shame for being an
educated student with an irresponsible attitude. Thus, College and school play
an important role in primary responsibility for resolving academic dishonesty
allegations and also responsible for administering relevant policies and
procedures.
Obviously,
I had made a clear stand about the importance of Academic Integrity. Adjacent
to this, I would like to discuss about the important to adhere the rules of
academic integrity. By adhering to the rules of academic integrity, it actually
helps a lot in identify those sources which needed to be referenced as well as
avoid assessment offences such as penalties. Indeed, academic integrity ensures
that students will be graded fairly plus giving recognition to person’s who
comes up with the idea.
As
I just mention the important of academic integrity and reason adhere the rules,
well I would like to thanks Taylor’s University for stresses on academic
integrity. I had learnt the proper way of referencing while avoiding plagiarism
in the beginning week through the subject “English for business purpose”. Being
honest, it actually a tough process for me when I first doing the UWE harvard
referencing in my individual assignment which require at least 2 online sources
and 2 written sources. I spent quite a number of hours research for reliable material
from both sources. It actually a “Lifelong Learning” to me as being a business
student I believed that I need to done more research paper in the future.
In
the mean time, I learnt to locate, utilise and extract information of others
while applying academic integrity in the process of doing my works.
Paraphrasing, summarising, citation and referencing are what I practice all the
time. Successfully, I avoid myself from plagiarism, academic dishonestly and
punishment. Last but not least, I hope
to practice and apply academic integrity while being equipped with Taylor’s Graduate Capabilities during
my work life, as it would help me to become a trustworthy person by building a
strong reputation and holding a strong value.
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Reference:
University of West
England (2012) Harvard Referencing at UWE: Avoiding Plagiarism. Bristol:
University of West England
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