Academic Integrity: Importance, Consequences, and Benefits

Running head: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
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Introduction
Academic integrity can be interpreted as the values, attitude and conduct of all the
researchers and the academics in every aspect of their teaching, research and service, ensuring
that they produce their own work (Chertok, Barnes & Gilleland, 2014).
This paper will focus on the terms “academic integrity”, “plagiarism” and will shed light
upon the consequences of the violation of the academic integrity. It will also discuss about the
importance of academic integrity in the field of researches.
Identify and describe Academic integrity
Academic integrity can be referred to as a set of ideologies that includes trust,
trustworthiness, conscientiousness, fairness and reverence and is the guiding principles of all the
students. It refers to taking accountability of one’s own work and valuing the rights of the other
members to work honestly. It also refers to the following of the moral requirements and where
suitable specialized standards suitable to the discipline. Without any academic integrity there can
be no trust or reliance on the accuracy, efficiency or value of a University teaching, learning and
public services.
Identify and describe Plagiarism
The word Plagiarism can be referred to as the action of presenting someone’s own work
as their own with or without the consent of the author and then incorporating their ideas in to the
work without the full acknowledgement.
The most common types of plagiarism are –

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Direct plagiarism – It is the word by word copy of someone else’s work without giving any
citation or quotation marks. This work in unethical and is considered as academically dishonest
(Angélil-Carter, 2014).
Self-plagiarism – This occurs when a scholar submits his/ her own previous work or
amalgamates pieces of the previous work, without any prior approval.
Mosaic plagiarism- This occurs when students borough phrases or sentences from a source,
without using any citations of quotations, or includes the synonyms of the language of the
author, while keeping the similar design and meanings (Angélil-Carter, 2014).
Accidental plagiarism- This type of plagiarism occurs when a person neglects or avoids to site
the sources or misquotes the sources or paraphrase a sourced by using related wordings without
any attribution.
Consequences of Academic Integrity
3 consequences of academic integrity violation
 The Instructors might instruct the students to redo the assignments on their own.
 Prospective employers and educational institutions ask for the recommendation forms
that ask for the feedback on a student’s moral and ethical behavior (Jiang, Emmerton &
McKauge, 2013). Hence, acts of academic dishonesty might risk the educational and
employment opportunities.
 In case of a level four violation, the student might be permanently expulsed from the
university.