Academic Skills: Importance, Integrity, and Implications of Academic Misconduct

Academic Skills

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Section 1......................................................................................................................................3
a. Academic integrity in higher education..................................................................................3
b. Importance of academic integrity............................................................................................4
c. Implications of Academic misconduct....................................................................................5
Section 2......................................................................................................................................6
a. Reflection report on designing an assignment game...............................................................6
b. Reflection of skills learned......................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The use of academic skills in the higher education has recently
developed. It is devised to help students in the journey of the higher
education. It is designed to help the students in developing learning skills
(Assiter, 2017). Academic integrity is based on ethical workings and are
established around common values of the human like honesty, trust,
responsibilities and so on. The universities are focused on maintaining the
academic integrity and the purpose they instruct teachers and mentors to
behave in the ethical manner as they are the role model for the students in
their academic career. Failure to obey ethical integrity results in the
academic misconduct by the students (Bretag, 2020). In the report described
the importance of the academic integrity and implications of academic
misconduct. Further, a reflection report is prepared on the outcomes of the
game formulation for learning purpose.
MAIN BODY
Section 1.
a. Academic integrity in higher education
Nowadays the universities are more concerned for the practice of the
academic integrity in the assignments that are provided by the universities
to the students for the purpose of learning. Higher education institutions are
not protected from cheating, corruption and unethical behaviours. Some of
the administration insisted on the fact that easily available content on the
internet is the source of the unethical practices like plagiarism. Universities
demands for more academic integrity as to improve the quality of the higher
education as students if not follow the academic integrity it tends to
deteriorate the university's image. Academic integrity is maintained by
following the moral principles of truth, fairness, research, responsibility,
honesty, etc. (Dawson, P., 2020). When students try to get a degree or
passing a examination as fast as possible they tend to perform unethical
activities like plagiarism, cheating, frauds, bribing and lose the quality