Academic Plagiarism and Professionalism in a Business Environment

This assignment discusses academic plagiarism, its relevance in academic writing, types of plagiarism, the role of the internet, and the importance of professionalism in a business environment. It also provides methods for avoiding plagiarism.

ASSESSMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Academic plagiarism can be defied as when a writer use more than four word similar or same
from the printed source deprived of any use of citation and a precise reference of original source
in present work. As all printed sources possess its own security and that is called copyright. In
context of a business environment, the owner of company cannot copied or steal the idea of any
other person or players of market (Husain, Al-Shaibani and Mahfoodh, 2017). In which the
present report is based on the academic plagiarism and its analysis related to professionalism in a
business environment. So in order to understand this, there are several term which is discussed in
this assignment like the meaning of plagiarism, its relevance in academic writing as well as the
types of plagiarism and role of internet. Additionally, why academic professionalism is related
with the professionalism in business environment as well as consequences for lack of academic
professionalism. At the end, methods for avoiding plagiarism is also discussed.
MAIN BODY
Plagiarism is process which refers to it is way to presenting of another author’s language,
thoughts, ideas, expression and view in order to developing original work. On the basis of
educational context they are different aspect because it is based on the situation paper (Ewing
and et.al., 2019). It considered as one of the ways of violation of various academic norms or it is
said those rule and condition which is not followed in academic paper. There are ample numbers
of plagiarism which followed in academic writing and various ways to avoid these. Student also
get benefit from online course and developing effectively academic writing content (Guraya and
Guraya, 2017). Under these necessary to about knowledge of work, computer code, illustration,
graphs and other media. It includes this method applicable equally to published text, data drawn
from book and journals, newspaper and magazine etc. Unpublished data also plays vital role in
order to come from lectures or essay. It plays important role in academic. It is important for
everyone to avoid plagiarism in writing. It basically means taking someone’s matter from printed
sources and then pretending that they are their own is term as plagiarism. And it became very
dangerous for those who copied the matter as it is not legal to copy the printed sources. In which
there are various types of plagiarism i.e. direct, self, Mosaic, accidental are the main four types.
The direct plagiarism refers to copy am material without any attribution or quotation marks. It
might be from journal, internet, books or any paper. In this internet also plays a wide role. In this
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modern digital world everything is present or available on internet. Everyone can easily copied
the material and along with it, can remove plagiarism with the help of so many sources or sites.
In which, the most affects or blamed thing is technology foe encouraging students for cheating.
Internet aids plagiarism in so many ways like it made easy to figure out plagiarism, growth of
contract cheating, new principles of citation as well as it initiated the conversation. In all these
concepts, internet plays an essential role in context of plagiarism (Javaid, Sultan and Ehrich,
2020).
Academic professionalism or integrity refers to the standards of applying self-principles
which permits individual to follow right direction even though in the absence of any other
peoples or person. In a business environment all peoples or employees are strangers and have
virtue of truth hence it is essential to possess professionalism in itself as with this a person can
fits well in such environment (Owens and Nicoll, 2019).In context of business environment, it
helps in various ways such as in establishing the trust among people of firm. Trust is very crucial
thing as it leads towards successful in business. As well as it makes anyone degree to be valued,
build self-confidence and helps peoples from getting out into unnecessary problem like being
proscribed from employment by any company. It offers stress free life and increase operational
efficiency of employee too. If people who are working in firm and not possess this quality of
academic professionalism then company will face so many problem like company will not able
to develop their organisation and will not able to attain its goal or objective. It is essential to
create a boundaries in workplace for establishing personal relationship. Professional’s behaviour
aids in separating the business from personal (Wilks, Cruz and Sousa, 2016).It keep limited
relationship in business context. For instance, a judge have not a personal relationship or
conversation with plaintiff or defendant.
Additionally, there are various ways by which an individual can improve or avoid
plagiarism in academic writing by keeping or tracking the sources that is written in (Keefer,
Brown and Rothschild, 2020). By using paraphrase or quote in essay, by crediting or referencing
original author in academic writing will avoided the plagiarism. As well as it is essential for
writer to check the plagiarism before submitting any paper. With the help of all these individual
can remove plagiarism in academic writing. As well as by avoiding the repetition of words
instead of this use of synonyms reduces the percentage of plagiarism (Karnalim, 2019). So with
the help of all these academic writing can be improved.
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CONCLUSION
From above discussed assignment it has been analysed that, it is very essential to avoid
plagiarism in academic writing as it improves the writing skills as well as remove negative
consequences by creating content with no plagiarism. In which there are various ways of
avoiding plagiarism like by checking the report before submitting, by evading repetition of
words, by using phrase or quotes in academic paper. So with the help of all these a writer can
remove plagiarism. Furthermore, it is vital to have professional quality in business environment
as it aids peoples or company in managing various activities or function. And for attaining
organisational goal in stipulated time, it is important to hold this quality of professionalism.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
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toward plagiarism and factors contributing to plagiarism: A review of studies. Journal of
Academic Ethics. 15(2). pp. 167-195.
Guraya, S. Y. and Guraya, S. S., 2017. The confounding factors leading to plagiarism in
academic writing and some suggested remedies: A systematic review. JPMA. The
Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association. 67(5). pp. 767-772.
Javaid, S. T., Sultan, S. and Ehrich, J. F., 2020. Contrasting first and final year undergraduate
students' plagiarism perceptions to investigate anti-plagiarism measures. Journal of
Applied Research in Higher Education.
Owens, J. K. and Nicoll, L. H., 2019. Plagiarism in predatory publications: a comparative study
of three nursing journals. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 51(3). pp. 356-363.
Wilks, D. C., Cruz, J. N. and Sousa, P., 2016. Personality traits and plagiarism: An empirical
study with Portuguese undergraduate students. Journal of Academic Ethics. 14(3). pp.
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Ewing, H., and et.al., 2019. Student and faculty perceptions of plagiarism in health sciences
education. Journal of Further and Higher Education. 43(1). pp. 79-88.
Keefer, L. A., Brown, M. and Rothschild, Z. K., 2020. Framing plagiarism as a disease heightens
students' valuation of academic integrity. International Journal of Psychology. 55(2). pp.
210-214.
Karnalim, O., 2019. Source code plagiarism detection with low-level structural representation
and information retrieval. International Journal of Computers and Applications. pp. 1-11.
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