BMP3003: Further Academic Skills - Academic Integrity Report

This report, submitted for a BSc (Hons) in Business Management, delves into the critical concept of academic integrity within higher education. It defines academic integrity, emphasizing honesty, responsibility, and fairness. Section 1 explores the significance of academic integrity, discusses the implications of academic misconduct, and highlights its importance in fostering a student's success. Section 2 reflects on the steps taken and challenges faced in producing a game, focusing on techniques used to eliminate plagiarism, formulate the game story, test gameplay quality, and develop coding. The report also reflects on the skills learned throughout the academic year, such as time management, communication, and critical thinking, and how these skills are emphasized in producing the game, and how the skills are applied within the course. The conclusion reiterates the benefits of academic integrity for students in developing creative ideas and achieving successful outcomes. Desklib offers a valuable resource for students seeking past papers and solved assignments to enhance their understanding of academic concepts.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3003
Further Academic Skills
Academic Integrity
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Contents
Introduction p
Section 1 p-p
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
p
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education p
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct p
Section 2 p-p
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Assignment 2 p
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game p
Conclusion p
References p

Introduction
Academic skills are those which represent the talent and habits that effectively
beneficial for academic pursuits such as report writing, learning, presentations, research
etc. these skills involves communication, social planning, studies, technical and analysis
skills. In academic skill it is highly necessary to being confident what a person does or
did because it helps in recognizing opportunities and keep job that offers deserving and
willing income (Douglas and Watt, 2019). To complete this assignment there are two
sections involves in which numerous questions are to be presented. These are related to
knowledge about academic integrity, importance of academic integrity in higher
education, implication that is present in relation to academic misconduct. In section two
steps that a person taken and difficulties that they face while producing game. Further it
present skills that a person learned this academic year that are highly useful in producing
game.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity refers to putting the values into practice. It represents that
an individual reflected being honest in academic work, taking responsibility for
learning, being fair to others, following conventions of scholarship. This shows
commitment to the honest and moral behavior in academic setting. Due to major
changes done within the higher education at wider level it is very crucial for students
of university to focus on adopting academic integrity so that they gain and
understand more knowledge and skills in an appropriate manner (Fallon, Kurtz and
Mueller, 2018). This helps students to attain goals in effective and efficient manner. It
represents the core set of values that will be applied to everything that a student
performs within university. Therefore academic integrity provides supports to
learning and academic work they perform within the university by involving some
module or course. In terms of UK, universities took academic integrity more seriously
where they offer information and guidance during the particular course. In this the
core advantage of academic integrity is that it support learner to share their ideas
and thoughts without any fear of copying or misused by other students. This reflects
original and honest work of a person that is highly beneficial for enhancing the career
that also helps in taking correct decisions. In academic integrity a student develops

an overall knowledge in terms of creative work that is particular shown under the
individual (Bretag, 2020). It assists in gaining and learning effective and honest
knowledge due to which an individual mind is to be developed to create new ideas
and thoughts without being copied from somewhere else. Several fundamentals are
to be included that are honesty, trust, responsibility, respect and fairness all are used
to represent integrity in academic session that helps student to capture more growth
and developing in future career.
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education
Academic integrity is terms as a fundamental of learning, researching and
teaching within university. It is highly important because it gives student the best
chance in terms of success by doing the task in an honest and creative manner. This
term is also very essential to ignore the negative issues like failing an assignments
or being asked to leave the institute to a student that develops person morale in
terms of presenting their work (Serkedakis., 2019). The concept of academic
integrity is highly useful for student and teachers in terms of presenting a path as a
opportunity for career. If a student invest time and effort within studying some
particular degree while following academic integrity than it shows stepping stone to
success in chosen field. Therefore it is a foundation of path in professional career. It
is mainly important within higher education by avoiding plagiarism and cheating and
any type of academic misconduct.
Academic integrity is highly beneficial for higher student in terms of removing
repudiated learning and dishonest work behavior. In this higher standard are linked
with students that safeguard reputation of university from negative controversies.
High standards in academic integrity removes the dishonest behavior that save the
student and university reputation and helps high education student to enjoy more
opportunity in future period (Drach, 2020). Learner or student who follow academic
integrity is highly passionate about not to include any kind of misconduct within
academic year. By upholding academic integrity in higher education helps in
developing a responsible student that fosters high level of integrity by developing
creative and unique skills and knowledge.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct

Academic misconduct defines as an action that is done by students by
attempting the other work for enjoying unfair academic advantage. If a student does
not follow the academic integrity while they study some course or module then it
represents the chance of academic misconduct. It mainly involves several terms like
collusion, plagiarism, contract cheating and assembly of data and possession of
unauthorized material at the time of exams. It represents as a type of cheating that is
performed by student to gain unfair marks in exams (Vogt, 2020). Academic
dishonesty is an accumulation of plagiarism, equivalent of stealing person content
and ideas etc. that is created and developed by someone for whom this work is a
currency. Doing academic misconduct student loses intellectual property along with
the recognition that they received from universities. This illustrates several rules and
policies which are mainly related to academic misconduct these are as follows:
If plagiarism and cheating is to be conducted than It maximizes the student
work in terms of redo the assignment. It Charges some penalties that involve
academic misconduct done by students at higher education. Assigning student a
failing grade for that assignment in which academic misconduct is done. Terminating
the participation of student within the project in which they involved. The major
implication of academic misconduct is including fines and loss of future projects
within the particular universities. It implies negative consequences on higher
education students by ruin their reputation in university and it also blacks the image
of university within education sector. In simple terms it loss opportunities also for
other student’s in future professional context. It also creates legal consequence for
student and university (Klijn, Alaoui and Vorsatz 2020). For instance- if a student
cheat or fabricate the project of other student that university take legal action upon
them that negatively impact student career also sponsor of the particular university
take formal actions against this misconduct.
Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Assignment 2
Producing a game is reflects a hard work and dedication of student that helps
learner to develops the games that is beneficial for their future success. While

producing the particular game I effectively focus on plagiarism so that falsification of
work is to be eliminated. Producing or designing a game is not a easy task because
it requires higher knowledge and skill that helps in fulfilling the demand of designing
a game in proficient manner. To product the game it is very essential to focus on the
technique that is used to develops a game.by selecting technique it is crucial to
examine the of any corruption so that it can be removed on time that helps in
producing a game in efficient and effective manner. To maintain accuracy and
effectiveness within producing game I want to develop a primary research by
conducting quiz in systematic manner that helps in providing information related to
academic integrity (MacLeod and Eaton, 2020). Further I want to focus on
formulating the story of game that includes background information regarding game
in a logical manner. This step helps in creating a path for next step to produce the
game in proficient manner within the rules and policies of academic integrity.
Formulating a story of game helps in making attractiveness and connection of
audience with gameplay due to which audiences are effectively connect with logical
flow. Another step that I have taken for producing the game is testing the quality of
gameplay in a tactical manner. It is useful because in this developers of game
recognize the blockage that created trouble to audience in playing game so that it
can be resolved effectively and efficiently. it is essential because of getting
successful and positive response of audience while playing game. After testing the
game the next step that I have taken in producing the game is develop coding so
that game is to be executed in systematic and authentic manner that attracts number
of people towards it. Therefore, after coding actual testing is to be done where game
is completely run and available for the end user. In this market launch is last step
that was taken by me while producing game where and process of registration is
done and it is ready for audience in terms of playing.
In developing the game there are several issues that are faced by me is
communicating with respondents related to academic misconduct. In this another
difficulty is creeping feature, not targeting the right audience for testing the game. At
the time of developing step several things are not managed like every person who
involve within the research have different opinion and it is not an easy to coordinate
properly with teammates (Gewirtz and Cribb, 2020). While developing game the
issue is conflict raising that creates hindrances in working due to which designing of

game face issue. Lack of engagement within working is another issue that was faced
under developing a game because of different opinion stress is being created within
individual. However, all it creates stress due to which I cannot work effectively to
overcome with this it is very essential to maintain positivity. Hence involve in
developing game facing challenge that affects efficient outcome. Overall it was a
good experience that I will develops during developing a team work
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game
In academic year, I have learned several skills that are highly effective in
emphasized in producing the game. These are included time management skill,
communication skill; critical thinking skills are to be learned within the particular
academic year. All these skills are very useful in producing the game. At the time of
producing the game it is very essential to complete it on time. In this my academic
skill is very helpful to complete it on time (Eaton, 2021). In academic year, I learn
academic integrity due to which my overall creativity skill is developed that helps in
producing the game in a unique manner. This also helps in gaining profitable results
and solving the issue of academic misconduct that give higher career opportunity in
producing game. Communication skill is very useful developing game in effective
manner because in developing game team work is done in which communication
play an essential role that helps in clear understanding task that are done within
producing game. Therefore, by implementing these skill while producing the game
helps in successfully completing the game and also provides more career
opportunity in business market that is essential for a higher education student.
Conclusion
From the above report it is to be concluded that academic integrity is highly
beneficial for gaining further academic skills to students in terms of being capable
towards to produce creative ideas within projects that gives fruitful results in future
terms. In terms of involving a game a student should effectively understand the
importance of academic integrity in their future career and within university learning.
This report also presents implication of academic misconduct that is mainly faced by
university and student by coping or fabrication of work. Due to which a student who
conduct academic misbehavior and university who face this issues losses recitation
within education sector that also affects other student career. It also presents legal

compliances where student pay penalties for doing misconduct. Further it involves
the steps and difficulties that a student may face by producing the game. It also
includes skills that a student learns in academic year that helps in producing a game
which is highly beneficial for developing the mind of students.

References
Books and Journal
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Douglas, S. and Watt, G., 2019. Plagiarism, Academic Integrity and the Law. Journal
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Drach, I., 2020. Research Integrity at Universities: analysis of the United Kingdom
and Ukraine experiences. International Scientific Journal of Universities and
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Eaton, S.E., 2021. Plagiarism in higher education: Tackling tough topics in academic
integrity. ABC-CLIO.
Fallon, L.M., Kurtz, K.D. and Mueller, M.R., 2018. Direct training to improve
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Serkedakis, M., 2019. Does Student Honesty and Integrity Conflict with Academic
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