Plagiarism and Academic Integrity in Business Environment

Professional Skills for
Business and Finance

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Plagiarism and relevancy of it in academic writing.....................................................................1
Relevancy of academic integrity with professionalism in business environment.......................1
Ways for avoiding plagiarism and improving academic writing.................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Academic plagiarism is the repetition of more than four words from a printed source
without using any of the quotation mark. In order to maintain academic integrity it is very
important to maintain it. It is related to professionalism in business environment because results
accurate and transparent completion of work. Present discussion is based upon analysis of
plagiarism and relevancy of academic integrity to professionalism in business environment.
MAIN BODY
Plagiarism and relevancy of it in academic writing
Plagiarism could be described as representation of someone else's matter as own idea in
the projects and reports without consent of them as well as acknowledgement. All the materials
that are published online are considered under plagiarism. There are various types of plagiarisms
and these are direct, self, mosaic and accidental etc. When an individual transcript someone
else's work word to word without any attribution then it will be known as direct plagiarism. If a
student will be submitting own previous work then it will a self plagiarism. When an individual
will be using matter from a source without any quotation mark or write synonyms for language
of author by keeping same structure and meaning then it will be known as mosaic plagiarism. It
could be intentional or unintentional and also called patch working which will be punishable and
considered as dishonest. If someone is working and neglecting to cite the sources then it will
called accidental plagiarism (Cavaliere, 2020).
For all the students it is very important to make sure that they are avoiding plagiarism in
writing as it may result in academic misconduct. Main relevancy of plagiarism with academic
writing is that it demonstrates that someone is pretending that the matter which is written by
them is their own but actually it belongs to other person. Internet played role in plagiarism
because all the online sources that are available for free are used by individuals for conducting
their own work. If it will not be in existence then individuals would not be able to access
different online sources to plagiarise their matter.
Relevancy of academic integrity with professionalism in business environment
Academic integrity could be defined as commitment of individuals to demonstrate honest
and ethical behaviour in their academic writing. It is the honesty which is required in studies so
that work of others which is used for completing own work could be acknowledged. If a person
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