Academic Plagiarism and its Relevance to Professionalism in a Business Environment

What is Academic
Plagiarism and Why is
Acedemic Integrity
Relevant to
Professionalism in a
Business Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Meaning of plagiarism and their relevance in academic writing along with types of plagiarism
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Importance of academic integrity relevant to professionalism in business environment.......4
Ways for avoiding plagiarism and improving academic writing...........................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Plagiarism can be defined as a procedure of using someone else's ideas, words and
thoughts. This study is going to show about plagiarism in the context of academic. There are
several types of plagiarism which this study will discuss such as direct, self, accidental, mash up
and all these types (Hussein, Rusdi and Mohamad, 2016). The main source by which students
commit this type of crime and plagiarism is internet and roles of internet in this context will be
discussed in this report. Further it will also discuss importance of academic integrity and ethics
that makes people able to being professional. Due to lack of integrity, colleges and students has
to face several problems. Different ways of removing plagiarism and improving academic
writing will be discussed as well.
MAIN BODY
Meaning of plagiarism and their relevance in academic writing along with types of plagiarism
Plagiarism is all about copying someone's idea, writing and words and pretending that it
is being done by themselves and own self. It is not a legal and college students sometimes
expelled from their colleges and schools if they are being caught plagiarizing. It can also be
considered as academic dishonesty. There are several sentences and penalties have to pay if
someone does and being caught plagiarizing such as : firing students and person who do
plagiarism, stripped of their grades etc.
Types of plagiarism: There are several types of plagiarism which are discussed as below:
Direct: It is a type in which, individuals transcript word for word of a section of someone
else's work, without quotation mark. It is called academically dishonest unethical work.
Self: It is a type in which, student submit a new project on teg same topic which has been
done by his/her and when he/she mixes some parts of his/her previous work in a new project
(Bouarara, Hamou and Rahmani, 2017). It is also unacceptable in high school and in a college
course.
Mosaic: This type of plagiarism occur when students borrows some phrases from a
source without using quotation mark. Students also uses synonyms of words from the author's
languages.