Academic Integrity, Plagiarism and Referencing: Key Points

This article provides a summary of key points on academic integrity, plagiarism and referencing using Cornell note style and mind map note method. The book by Diane Pecorari emphasizes the importance of academic integrity and originality, and the need for proper referencing to avoid plagiarism. The newspaper article by Jennifer Dawn Marsh and Campion highlights the accountability of students in maintaining academic values and avoiding plagiarism, and the role of teachers in increasing awareness and protecting students from plagiarism.

Academic integrity plagiarism
and referencing

TABLE OF CONTENTS
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
A) Summarising the key points of the book that is based on Academic integrity, plagiarism
and referencing by using Cornell note style................................................................................3
B) Summarising the key points of the newspaper article based on Academic integrity,
plagiarism and referencing using mind map note method...........................................................4

MAIN BODY
A) Summarising the key points of the book that is based on Academic integrity, plagiarism and
referencing by using Cornell note style
Pecorari, D., 2017, October. What can plagiarism tell us about academic writing?. In 2017-18
CAES Research Seminar.
ACADEMIC WRITING AND PLAGIARISM A LINGUISTIC ANALYSATION
 Academic integrity
 Plagiarism
 Referencing
 Concerned with the ethics and morals
 Plays the important role in the students
life
 Inappropriate relation between the text
and source.
 Unethical behaviour
 Provide original credit
 Part of ethical behaviour
The Academic writing and plagiarism book states that the plagiarism has been considered as the
unethical behaviour. The author, Diane Pecorari states that this is the plagiarism is shows the
unethical relation between the text and the sources. Coping someone else idea and writing it and
expressing that content as their own content is one of the biggest problem that has been arising in
the academic session. The academic integrity has to be followed by each individual as this
suggest that, the fair practices has to maintained by the students in their learning and writing
process. It is important to mention the original source from where the content has been taken. It
has been stated in book that, recently, a diverse population of the students has been found in
going towards the plagiarism. The originality of the sources has been ignored while submitting
the assignment (Pecorari, 2017). And this has been considered as illegal. The academic values
suggest that. Putting the original source is the way of respecting the writers and their ideas. The
academic writing must be free from the issue of the plagiarism and should be completed with the

proper referencing. According to the author, there should be strong banned has to put in the
plagiarism and strict action has to be taken against this.
Analysing the credibility of the source using CARP Test
Currency The book was published in 2015 and all the
links are in functional process.
The book has been originally written by the
author and no update has been made.
Authority The author of the book is Diane Pecorari. She
is the professor of the English linguistic. She is
highly skilled in terms of raising her opinion
over this topic.
Relevance & Reliability The information is completely relevant the
topic. And the information is easy to
understand. The author has clearly analysed
everything.
Purpose The author has clearly mentioned the purpose.
It has been clearly stated that the plagiarism
shows the unethical behaviour therefore, it has
to be banned.
B) Summarising the key points of the newspaper article based on Academic integrity, plagiarism
and referencing using mind map note method
Marsh, J.D. and Campion, J., 2018. Academic integrity and referencing: Whose responsibility
is it?. Journal of Academic Language and Learning 12(1) pp.A213-A226.
ACADEMIC INTEGTITY AND REFERENCING: WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IT IS:

This article puts a major focus on the accountability. Under this article it has been asked
that “who is the responsible for the academic integrity and referencing” The question has been
raised by the author in terms of knowing the responsibility. It has been further determined that,
the students are accountable for this. The students have to maintain the academic values and do
not follow the path of the wrongdoing by following the plagiarism. The students must analyse
the sources from where the ideas has been taken. They are the ones who are responsible for this.
Ethical
behaviour
Learning needs
of the students
Original source
is important
Academic
values
Student’s
responsibility
ACADEMIC
INTEGTITY AND
REFERENCING

The article has put the keen focus on increasing the awareness related to the importance of the
academic values (Marsh and Campion, 2018). So, the students can follow the academic values.
And along with this, the teachers has to make a keen focus on the learning needs of the students
in order to increase their knowledge power and protect them from following the path of
plagiarism. It is important to give credit to the original writer as they put their efforts in writing
the content.
Evaluating the credibility of the source using CARP Test
Currency The article was published in 2018 and the
copyright of this article has been consists by
the author. There is no duplication has been
made.
Authority The Author of the article is Jennifer dawn
marsh. The author is concerned with the
background of the psychology and philosophy
education. The author highly understands the
human emotion. Therefore, the author is highly
capable of writing this article.
Relevance and Reliability The article is relevant to the topic it is clearly
analysing the responsible person behind the
academic integrity and referencing.
Purpose The main purpose of this article is to determine
the accountability of the students and the
teachers as well. As the author understand the
human emotion. Therefore, the learning needs
of the students has been highlighted in the
article.