The Importance of Academic Integrity and Professionalism in Business

This essay delves into the critical concepts of plagiarism and academic integrity, emphasizing their profound relevance within the professional business environment. It begins by defining plagiarism and exploring its various forms, highlighting the importance of avoiding it to maintain academic honesty. The essay then examines the direct link between academic integrity and professionalism, underscoring how honest and ethical behavior in academic settings translates into trustworthiness and credibility in the business world. It discusses how upholding academic integrity fosters self-confidence and enhances the ability to work effectively. The essay further provides practical strategies for avoiding plagiarism and improving academic writing skills, such as careful source tracking and the use of plagiarism checkers. Finally, it concludes by reinforcing the necessity of maintaining academic integrity to ensure accurate and ethical work, offering a pathway for students to develop the skills and values essential for success in their future professional endeavors. The essay also includes a real-world example of academic integrity and relevant references.

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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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is focused with it then it demonstrates that others can trust that individual. Apart from this, it is
also very important to maintain it as it provides value to degree. It is relevant to professionalism
in a business environment. All the students who have higher integrity in their academic projects
stands a better chance for employer society. It can also offer self confidence to the individuals
which will help them to work effectively and maintain professionalism. All the students who are
working on college projects needs to make sure that they are maintaining academic integrity as it
will develop and demonstrate their honesty which will facilitate them to work in an entity.
If academic integrity will not be maintained in businesses then it may result in different
consequences for the enterprise. It is very important for the individuals to make sure that they are
maintaining it while working within the companies. Some of the challenges which may take
place because of lack of it are legal actions against the individuals which will result in bad image
of them in front of others (Fatemi and Saito, 2019).
There are various examples of academic integrity. One of them is related to using other's
thought in own research work. Jennifer who was an art student spent lot of time to complete the
final project. In the assignment details of the artists were required so she made sure that correct
information should be used in the project (Real world example of academic integrity, 2017).
Some of the thoughts of essayists were used by her in her own work and she thought that she is
not plagiarising. It was plagiarism because no credit was provided by her to them as she needs to
acknowledge them for their world. Due to this breach of academic integrity her work was not
considered honest and accurate.
Ways for avoiding plagiarism and improving academic writing
For all the academic writers it is very important to make sure that they are ignoring
plagiarism in their academic writing and paying attention towards improvement in the skills. It is
also very important for them to make sure that integrity is also improved by them within business
setting. For this purpose, individuals can keep track of all the sources that are used by them to
research the content. A plagiarism checker should be used by the students before submitting the
work. While completing the project writers should provide credit to actual author by in-texting
the citation. Apart from this, for the purpose of making improvement in academic integrity the
individuals can allocate responsibility and work properly so that it could be maintained. If all the
persons will get aware of fundamental values of writing and working in a business setting then
also they will be able to improve academic writing and integrity. These are responsibility,
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fairness, trust, respect and honesty (Jamieson and Howard, 2019). By paying attention towards
all of them the individuals will be able to complete their work properly in ethical manner by
ignoring any type of academic misconduct.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it could be concluded that plagiarism is a type of academic
misconduct which is required to be ignored for completing the projects honestly. It is very
important for all the individuals to make sure that they are ignoring it in their academic writing.
If the it will not be avoided by them then it may create consequences such as inaccurate and
unethical work. In order to ignore it individuals can keep track of all the sources from where
information is gathered.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Cavaliere, P., 2020. Internationalizing Higher Education in Japan: Dealing with Plagiarism and
Academic Integrity. Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism: Case Studies from
Universities Around the World. p.65.
Fatemi, G. and Saito, E., 2019. Unintentional plagiarism and academic integrity: The challenges
and needs of postgraduate international students in Australia. Journal of Further and
Higher Education. pp.1-15.
Jamieson, S. and Howard, R., 2019. Rethinking the relationship between plagiarism and
academic integrity. Revue internationale des technologies en pédagogie
universitaire/International Journal of Technologies in Higher Education. 16(2). pp.69-
85.
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Real world example of academic integrity. 2017. [Online]. Available through:
<http://tutorials.istudy.psu.edu/academicintegrity/academicintegrity9.html>
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