Academic Plagiarism: Types, Consequences, and Importance of Academic Integrity

This article discusses academic plagiarism, its types, and consequences. It also emphasizes the importance of academic integrity and its fundamentals, including honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. The article provides relevant sources for further reading.

Academic plagiarism Academic plagiarism consists of inappropriate utilization and copying for a source from an
another author of individual without providing them with the deserved credibility for their
unique work.
 It is the practices of misrepresentation of work and copying is a serious offence which can
result in penalization relative to copyright laws as well. The concept of plagiarism is not
only bound to academic environment but is also related to professional world as well.
 The duplication and coping of someone else's work reduces the overall all quality of the
work as well as reduce the knowledge of the individual performing plagiarism.
 It is important to have academic integrity as it promotes the elimination of plagiarism and
direct the attention towards the creation of new and unique work which consist of
appropriate sources along with correct recognition to the original owner of the work.
Types of
plagiarism
Direct plagiarism:
This form of plagiarism consists of copying work of other authors and individuals that has acquired from various
sources without providing proper recognition. It is the most common type of plagiarism and is highly unethical as reduces
the quality of academic work in both personal and professional aspect.
Mosaic plagiarism:
This type of plagiarism involves unintentional copying of work form other authors and individuals. The plagiarist
may have introduced a small section of the source they have utilized by fail to give appropriate recognition to the original
owner of the work through incorrect quotes and references.

In order to avoid plagiarism, it is
important to have academic integrity
which allows for the creation of new
and unique context of work. This
makes the work introduced by an
individual valuable and highly
credibility.
Honesty:
This fundamental of academic integrity promotes the concept that an individual should be honest in
their work and how the perform the task of acquiring knowledge from various sources. It states that they
should be honest in their overall learning and researching in order to create a unique work that is valuable
as well as has credibility.
Trust:
This fundamental of academic integrity encourages the element of trust between individuals in order
to ensure that sharing of innovative ideas and thoughts are not stolen and present as one's own work. This
ensures that individuals can introduce their work freely exchange ideas and work while considering the
aspect of mutual trust in one another.
Self-plagiarism:
This type of plagiarism consists of coping and duplication of own work. It consists
of utilizing one’s own original work multiple times and issuing it as new content. This type
of plagiarism results in degradation and credibility of the work due to repetition of same
work. Moreover, the quality of the work also decreases over time due to excessive
duplication which can result in alteration in valuable facts and figures.
Accidental plagiarism:
This type of plagiarism occurs when an individual misquotes phrases or parts of text
from a particular source without providing the owner of the original work appropriate
recognition. This results in the work being less creditable and decreases its overall value
relative to knowledge and information.

Fairness:
The fairness fundamental in academic integrity focuses on establishing structured and clear transparent
expectations relative to the practices to support fairness in the overall interaction of individual such as students,
faculty and administrators. This ensure the work of all individual is treated fairly and the risk of plagiarism is
eliminated in order to improve the quality and uniqueness of work being presented.
Respect:
The respect fundamental of academic integrity pays emphasis on the value of interaction, cooperation and
participatory nature of learning. It promotes individuals to honour and value to work of others along with
elimination of the utilization of plagiarism. This helps in building mutual respect between individuals relative to
their work and allows for the creation of valuable content of work.
Responsibility:
This fundamental of academic integrity is based upon the structure of personal accountability along with
the concept of willingness of individuals to lead by an example in order to uphold mutual agreements and
standards to take appropriate actions when they encounter wrongdoing.
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