Academic Plagiarism and the Relevance of Academic Integrity in Professionalism

Professional skills

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Academic plagiarism:..................................................................................................................1
Importance of academic integrity:...............................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
Assessment 2...................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
Outline of products and service:..................................................................................................2
Statistical data to backup ideas:...................................................................................................2
Reason for which ideas is investible:...........................................................................................3
Investment used for:....................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Academic plagiarism is an act of copy others work and presenting it as their own without ging
them create and acknowledgement (Alshare and Sewailem, 2018). It creates impact over quality
of knowledge, skills and learning of person. In order to avoid these tings, a person needs to
consist proper references in their work. This project report includes description about academic
plagiarism. It also consists analysation of relevance of academic integrity in context to
professionalism in business environment.
MAIN BODY
Academic plagiarism:
Academic plagiarism refers to an act in which a person is presenting other work, ideas as their
own without their consent, acknowledgement of work. It consists both published as well as
unpublished material, whether it is in printed, manuscript as well as electronic form (Asonitou
and Kottara, 2019). It can be either reckless, unintentional or intentional. Intentional plagiarism
can be done in different ways as some authors copy entire wok or study or change authorship in
order to represent work as their own. Accidental Plagiarism is another type which is find out in
graduate students. It can be result from incorrect paraphrasing or inappropriate quotation marks,
incorrect citations. Self-plagiarism is one in which a person uses their own work which is
previously published without any citation in form of plagiarism. A person can adopt different
ways in order to avid academic plagiarism as they should use quotation marks, they should use
references in all parts of sentences and needs to paraphrase appropriately. They also need to
check accuracy of references and can also use plagiarism check in order to avoid plagiarism.
Importance of academic integrity:
Academic integrity refers to expectation of students, teachers, researchers and other members of
community to act with fairness, responsibility, respect, trust and honesty. It provides basis for
goals of university which allow them to exchange ideas and also to develop knowledge which
require individual scholars to work with trust one another (England, 2020). There are five pillars
of academic integrity which are honesty, trust, respect, fairness, responsibility. It is important in
an organisation for various reason which hare as follows:
Improve trust: Academic integrity helps a person to gain trust of other people which whom they
need to dela with. It is important for them to work togethers for attainment of common goals
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