Academic Writing Skills and Professionalism in Radiography

This essay delves into the crucial aspects of academic writing skills, study habits, and professional conduct for student radiographers. It highlights the significance of avoiding academic misconduct, such as plagiarism and cheating, by employing effective writing and research methodologies. The essay explores the academic standards required for undergraduate study, emphasizing the importance of understanding credit hours, referencing styles, and ethical practices. Furthermore, it discusses the need for personal and professional development through lifelong learning, emphasizing the importance of continuous professional development (CPD) to maintain and enhance skills and knowledge. The essay also examines the professional behavior expected of student radiographers, including adherence to codes of conduct, ethical considerations, and the ability to handle various situations. The scope of practice for radiographers is also addressed, emphasizing autonomous practice and the application of knowledge and skills. Finally, the essay evaluates the study skills needed for academic success in higher education, including different study orientations and the importance of information retrieval and critical learning. The essay concludes by reiterating the significance of academic integrity and the role of proper research and writing in avoiding misconduct.

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Academic standards required for undergraduate study..............................................................3
Recognize the need for personal and professional development lifelong learning....................4
Professional behaviour amongst the student radiographer.........................................................4
Scope of practice of a radiographer...........................................................................................5
Evaluation of study skills needed for academic study in higher education...............................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
Reference....................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The essay is about how the academic misconduct like collusion, plagiarism or cheating can
easily be avoided by good academic writing and study skills. The academic misconduct is a
type of cheating which is common among the students at the education level with the
temptation to gain an unfair advantage. This is mainly due to the higher expectations from the
families as well as the peer pressure of the grades. Each university contains information on
student code of conduct which suggest that the students are working at the period of study.
University of Hertfordshire (2010) provides the students with proper referencing citations to
avoid any accusations of academic misconduct. With the inappropriate skills, the student
radiographers might be caught in case of dishonesty, involving in the prolonged and the
repeated lies about the mental ill health. HCPC Conduct and Competence Committee,
thereby, will be checking about how whether the student radiographers demonstrated unsafe
clinical practices or not.
However, academic writing is more than just captivating the reader. The creative writing
skills help in using the correct grammar, phrases etc., with proper demonstration and
evidence of robust research (Okoroafor et al, 2016). The academic writing helps in properly
working over the copious study, research and planning. This helps in improving the
professional behaviour as well, where the student radiographers tend to demonstrate the
writer’s knowledge and understanding on the assignment. With this, they will be able to
facilitate the interpersonal interaction between the individuals or in a group setting. They will
be able to monitor the emotional expressions and the responsiveness, better speaking and
writing to the audience, being on time and delivering proper services.

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Academic standards required for undergraduate study
A proper understanding for the undergraduate study is based on capability to achieve and
work on the different levels of the minimum entry requirements. The credit hour require to
analyse the different curriculum committees for the academic unit for approving the courses
and certifying the student learning. The research, internships, independent studies and the
practical helps in awarding the academic credit. The college will also tell the student which
style of referencing system can be used (Welsh, 2017). Fair approach is when it is widely
agreed that all the students must be treated fairly and one must not try to gain benefits by not
manufacturing the work for the sake of assessment. Responsibility is when one must take
accountability for the sake of learning and also follow the university for the sake of integrity
based values and assessment based regulations (Ellis, 2016).
Recognize the need for personal and professional development lifelong learning
This guide is based on the explanation on why it is important to record learning as well as
development and how student can do it. The concept of CPD can be defined as the
requirement for people to keep updated with quick transforming level of knowledge. It is also
important to understand here that there are other companies as well that can be referred for
the structure procedure. This is done to maintain, grow as well as increase the level of skills
along with competency and knowledge on professional as well as personal level to improve
the overall performance at work (Bartholomew, 2014). It is also stated that effective CPD is
based on the commitment for the sake of professionalism and it also exhibit that one has to
take personal accountability for making sure that students have the right skills as well as
knowledge which is important to meet the challenges for the changing time. The overall
procedure must be based on advantages for the people, students, sponsors and the college or
institution as a whole. The good news is that one people set goal and formulate a plan as well

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as work it on daily basis, there are 5 to 7 years from time to time where student can work on
gaining top ten percent of people in the field (Campus & Campus, 2014).
Professional behaviour amongst the student radiographer
The radiographers have to follow a code of professional conduct which consist of varied
number of legal, ethical and professional level framework that is able to rule the practice in
four nations of UK (Sloane & Miller, 2017). Specifically, it accepts as well as also built on
the Health and Care Profession Council Standards of Conduct and other similar groups by
contextualising such generic based standards for the sake of administrators or registrants
towards practices of students, assistants and other kind of professionals in diagnostic and
radiography department (Nortjé & Hoffmann, 2017).
For the students, the radiographer professionalism and behaviour are mainly considered as a
caregiver that gives the student an opportunity to focus on the situations where the different
considerations and demands need to be weighed with other decision-making process. The
overall concept has been framed usefully within some boundaries of professional, law, ethical
as well as employment (Godfrey et al, 2016). Here, the students can handle the positive and
the negative model behaviour, with the perceptions of professionalism related to individual
personal characteristics. As per the study of the content analysis, there have been
classifications for the student response which results in general skills, specific and personal
characteristics with major impact on educational environment.
Scope of practice of a radiographer
There are number of autonomous professionals who practice as well as entails the practice of
judgement as well as effective decision making with the help of complicated procedure based
on assessment as well as action that consist of the communication of knowledge, experiences,
skills and in the end values. The students as radiographer will be able to apply knowledge of

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radiography profession history, future research etc. It is possible to apply the knowledge of
the health and social political influences that tends to substantiate the value of professional
behaviour. Within the scope as well as sectors as mentioned in the document called scope of
practice 2013, single members of the workforce at professional level can develop as well as
manage their own set of activities as professional radiographers. It is a moral as well as
ethical operations that also ask for high standards that are reflective in practice set along with
professional approach (Godfrey et al, 2016). At the same time, not all autonomous
practitioners in their own set of rights along with students, trainees and practitioners that were
subjected to same set of moral values and ethical practice which can be applied to the more
limited scope of operations (Groundwater-Smith & Mockler, 2016).
Evaluation of study skills needed for academic study in higher education.
As per the study, orientation is based on the overall outlook as well as those studies in
practice. The concept of study orientation can also be classified into four simple kinds
discussed about shallow orientation: this type can be featured by evaluating as well as
learning by memorising the expense of clarity. Students who are able to adopt the method
usually or simply look to pass rather than to normally learn new kind of things. The student
should also answer for the questions in exams in right manner. However, the complete picture
is missing in this case (Dougherty, 2017). This kind of study based on orientation is usually
correlates with poor performance. Deep orientation consists of high motivation to gain clarity
on what can be studied. Students who take this method that have an easier learning in timing
for the detailed and big picture since the topics studied are placed in this context (Dougherty,
2017). Social orientation can be featured by high level interest in the social features of
studies instead of studies. There is a strong social based orientation usually correlates with
poor success in studies. On the contrary, it is important to remember the friendships made at
the time of studies that can be highly rewarding. Performance based orientation is a

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systematic as well as structured method to accomplish set goals. Students with high level of
performance is based on methods that are able to change in tactful method with the
orientation from shallow to deep reward based performance (Evans, 2016). Information based
retrieval is when there is independent information based on retrieval along with processing
and critical learning which is integral part of the studies. It is crucial that one can learn to
recognize when and what type of information is required along from where one seek the data.
It is also important to offer the student with printed along with electronic information based
sourced and also give information based retrieval training (Mussa, 2015).
Conclusion
The academic misconduct is the type of ripping associated mainly with the academic
standards. It is important to focus on high outlooks from households when friends attain a
better class. The domestic authorship is the procedure which start from properly
understanding and undertaking the making research which involves the composing of
assorted bill of exchanges with proof reading and redacting before taking it to a conclusion.
(O'Toole, 2016). When the Radiographers Registration Board was formulated by the
members as well as representative of the similar profession, they have also adapted the
foundation with additional help from different kind of expertise which are completely
external to the board.

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