Importance of Professional Skills and Academic Integrity in Business and Finance

Professional skills for
business and finance

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic plagiarism happens in situations where writers use number of words from any
particular source without mentioning original author or writer. The present report is will identify
the importance of plagiarism in professionalism context. Moreover, it will identify role of
academic integrity along with importance of rules and values that need to be considered while
operating in the business environments.
MAIN BODY
Copying from another source is way in which the reader is deceived through representing
data in manner that look different and original through using the words from others. There are
various types of Plagiarism that are found in various academic books and manuscripts. This
includes straight plagiarism where only sentence structure are changed and the odd words are
added or else deleted (Awasthi, 2019). Another one is making use of citation where only minor
changes are applied in the original context without using any kind of footnotes. Other is basic
piracy in which even though reference is mentioned but where reference is provided by the
writer but some words are slightly changed to make it look more original.
Problems arising of such plagiarism can be personal, ethical and legal depending upon
the content the user wants to deliver to its audience. In context of academic plagiarism there can
be certain consequences that have to be faced. Some major consequence include destroyed of
student reputation that may cause student to be suspended or expelled (Horbach and Halffman,
2019). Moreover, there are chances that professional reputation is harmed and there are no
future job opportunities available to the student. Also, academic reputation might be lost that
may not allow the student to publish any articles in the future.
Further educational ethics is similar to and thus can be easily associated with plagiarism.
Further, it displays the level of dedication and moral behaviour in field of academic writings. It
can be understood through providing credit to other people when any of their ideas is used
(Olivia-Dumitrina, Casanovas and Capdevila, 2019). Failure to provide such acknowledgement
is considered as plagiarism. To avoid the concept of plagiarism there are certain ways that can
be adopted:
 Paraphrasing the content to ensure that text is not copy paste in the original form from
the reference paper.