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Task 1
Why is academic integrity important?
Academic integrity is very important in recent times as there are many students who
have been completing their assignments via assignment helping companies and ghost writers.
Academic integrity is important for various reasons like garnering trust from the professors
and peers because trust is considered to be one of the vital characteristics to become a
successful and an efficient leader. This will also help in developing a positive reputation. It
also helps in adding value to the degree of the students. Scholars’ state majority of the
employers prefer hiring employees who have personal integrity that can contribute to the
business positively (Van Belle et al, 2019).
What penalties can apply to breaches of academic integrity?
Torrens University gives opportunities to the students to fix their mistakes however an
academic misconduct has various penalties which can affect the student. According to the
academic integrity policy, a student breaching academic integrity for the first time will be
recorded in the file of the student and then the student will be given an opportunity to
undertake another assessment where they will not be given any opportunity to plagiarise,
their assignment will be marked unsatisfactory or they will get a downgrade on their final
grade on the specific subject (Torrens., 2020). Conducting it the second time will have the
same consequences however conducting it the third time will result in more penalties like
they might be suspended from their classes, exclusion from the class and the extreme will be
expulsion from the course.
How does working with integrity improve your professional and personal
success?
Academic integrity is important as it makes students work on their own projects
which help them in learning the course and developing themselves and also help them in

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gaining the knowledge. Atkinson, Nau & Symons, (2019) states breaching of academic
integrity means the assignment will be done by a ghost writer or plagiarized work will be
submitted which means that the students will not learn the course which will be a huge issue
when they join a job as they will not have the knowledge to apply and will be unable to work
in the organisation efficiently which will hinder their professional as well as personal
development.