Professional Skills for Business: Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

This essay examines the critical aspects of academic integrity and plagiarism within the context of professional skills for business and finance. It begins by defining academic integrity and plagiarism, including various types such as direct, self, mosaic, and accidental plagiarism. The essay emphasizes the importance of maintaining academic integrity in academic writing and its relevance to professionalism in a business environment, highlighting the value it provides to a degree and the trust it builds. It explores the consequences of plagiarism, such as academic misconduct and legal actions, and discusses ways to avoid it, including proper source tracking, using plagiarism checkers, and providing correct citations. The essay also provides real-world examples and emphasizes the role of responsibility, fairness, trust, respect, and honesty in improving academic writing and maintaining integrity within business settings. The conclusion underscores that plagiarism is a type of academic misconduct that must be avoided to complete projects ethically and accurately.

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.
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 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).
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
Professional Skills for Business and finance
INTRODUCTION
Plagiarism and relevancy of it in academic
writing

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, 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.
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.
Conclusion
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