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 on-line 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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