BMP3003 Further Academic Skills: Academic Integrity Report Semester 2

This report provides an overview of academic integrity, its importance in higher education, and the implications of academic misconduct. It delves into the ethical policies and moral values expected of students, emphasizing honesty and responsibility in academic work. The report also reflects on the steps taken to produce a game focused on academic misconduct and plagiarism, highlighting skills developed during the academic year such as creativity, organization, research, technical proficiency, and time management. The conclusion reinforces the significance of academic integrity and the university's commitment to addressing misconduct, while also summarizing the skills required for game production.

Introduction
Academic integrity can be meant by a code of conduct on ethical policies or moral
values which must be taken care by the students during their learning cycle with a motive to
complete their tasks in a honest manner. This report is based on the description of academic
integrity and its significance in higher education (Albrecht and Clark, 2021). The report also
covering the academic misconduct and its implications which has been observed in various
cases in the university. In the second part of this assignment, it includes several steps which
are taken by a student while producing the game which is based on the academic
misconduct and plagiarism knowledge. Also, there is a discussion on the several skills which
are developed throughout the academic year and the production of game.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is primarily understood as core set of values that must be applied
by any academic writer. These values are essentially based on the academic learning of the
student through which a proper guidance and support can be achieved. It is that code of
conduct or ethical policy which assist the passing of academic learning with the aid of action
such as rigour in research and academic publishing, avoidance of cheating, care of ethical
policies with proper honesty and many more. Academic writing includes reports, essays,
case studies and dissertations, which sometimes challenging to attempt. It is important for
the writer to present their ideas and information in the right language and pattern, and also
have to demonstrate the skills of good critical thinking. While it signifies that a student must
do read or research the existing work in order to develop the original form of arguments
and conclusions (Bowden and Green, 2019). Academic writer essentially improve their
knowledge and put their efforts and try not copy or cheat with academic standards and
must give the credit to the original writer. With an intention to protect the rights of original
writer, academic integrity has been considering with the moral code of standards of the
University. The term Academic Integrity has been popularized by the Don McCabe of United
States of America. There are many more scholars of academic integrity who include Sarah
Elaine Eaton of Canada, Cath Ellis of Australia, Tracey Bretag of Australia and so on. Overall,
academic integrity for students means to recognize the beliefs of academic ethics in the
work which means being honest in the work which they do at their higher education. It also
outlines being responsible and fair in the work and learning they get in the university.
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education
Academic Integrity as a fundamental value is very important part in the higher
education. It supports students in many methods to make them learn and enhance their
skills in academic courses (Keller and Swaminathan, 2020). Academic integrity is very
essential for the pupils, university and new ideas.
For students-

Academic integrity is crucial for the educatees as it offers an opportunity to get
success in his life by completing the given assignments with honest and positive attitude. It
also helps them to avoid bad consequences such as being asked to leave or failing an
assignment in the university. The student invest their time and effort to learning and getting
a degree which will be stepping stone for the student to get the success in the chosen
career.
For university-
The way students learn and the staff work at the university will demonstrate their
way of conduct to the the outside world. For such, the university needs to be trustworthy
and consistent in their way of offering education so that society will have confidence in the
students who got their degree from the University. This is why academic misconduct is
taken very seriously by the university.
For new ideas-
Academic integrity also includes the identification of sources in a right way in the
assignment which is an important part in generation and success of new ideas. Identifying
sources will help students to let know and mark their work to see where the influences have
come from, it supports students to rebuilt the knowledge and allows to give proper credit to
the original writers whose knowledge and ideas have used.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct can be understood by those actions which are practiced by
pupils, who go against the ethics and norms of educational institution in their academic
writing. Academic misconduct involves, academic fraud, academic dishonesty or breach of
academic integrity in an institution (LLANGOS, 2020). This is a serious issue in the university,
for the teachers and students as well. The University takes all the reported incidents on a
serious note and seeks to ensure that they are dealt with the consequences in an efficient
and appropriate manner. This actions in the university involve losing of future assignments
(Wong, Kwong and Pegrum, 2018). As the student's career and life may ruin due to the
academic misconduct, University is very serious about it. It is also not good for those
students who are concerned in neutralization in order to justify the misconduct, have likely
chances to participate in this form of dishonesty and in future they can work with
misconduct and cheating. Student's learning will affect which is essential in their study
and to attend the degree and lately they may not have this whenever they find jobs. In
economic terms, it also origins under protection of learning as the teacher's job is to
develop knowledge in the students but that is not achieved by the learner and will affect
their future job opportunities and economy. It is one of the most crucial part of career in the
higher education.
Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Project 2
There are several steps taken to produce the game of academic integrity named
“Capturing the Plagiarism” in which teachers asked different questions to each and every

student. In this game, students are asked to roll the dice to get a certain numbers and after
receiving the certain numbers they will be require to answer the asked questions to get the
points. Teachers prepared a list of questions for the game so that students can answer
whenever their chance comes (Rea, 2018). This game requires students to recall their
knowledge about academic integrity and academic misconduct which they have learned in
their higher education in the university. The students are required to get the new ideas
which are not copied from anywhere and reflect their own way of conduct. This also
involves technicality in which technical members are preparing a screen in which the
student can log in and get their questions to ask. Whenever the student log in the question
will be automatically updated. This needs to be technically developed for which various
difficulties were found while producing the game. This also requires a deep understanding in
which game is produced in a simple and sober way but needs to be look attractive through
which student can show their talent and creativity to design something new and original. It
is very important that the game should be produced in such a way that is easily understand
by the students so that the teachers does not have to put much efforts to provide a ethical
knowledge of the game and make students learn and get answer with originality.
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game
There are numerous skills developed during the higher education and will support a
student to achieve success and make his future brighter (Ross, 2019). Some of skills which
have learned during the game and academic year are discussed underneath:
 Creativity: It is very obvious that producing a game needs creative skills. Producing
game for the students will helps to enhance the creative thinking which is also
significant part of the student's life. The game involves many sections which needs
to be completed with a creativity to attract more number of students (Stephens,
2018). This delivers an experience to those people who design game and develops
creativity in them.
 Organizing Skills: In order to enhance the skills and learning in students, it is very
important that the game must be properly organized in which instructions must be
properly mentioned, what steps a student has to take must be mentioned clearly
and so on. This organized element in the game will help to build organizing skills in
the person. Also, there are lots of people who contributed in the game which needs
to be well organised to get effective results.
 Research skills: With a purpose to ask different questions from the students, it
requires a proper research so that effective questions can be asked by the teachers.
In order to get the assignment done, there are various resources through a student
can take help to enhance knowledge and to succeed research skills (San Jose, 2021).
This skill is very useful in the academic integrity and academic misconduct where an
individual research on each and every aspect in order to make better decisions in
their life.
 Technical skills: Technical experts plays a very important to design an effective game
for the students. Technical experts supports a person to produce a game but also
there are different knowledge which has to be carry while designing a game.
Producing game for the higher education support an individual to enhance their
technical skills which will help to make a bright future.

 Time management skills: Producing a game requires time management skills. To
complete a task in the game, it facilitates with shortage of time which needs to
improve the time management skills in the student (Tammeleht and Et.al., 2019). It
is not only essential in the production of game but also important in the academic
learning of the student.
Conclusion
It has been concluded from the above report is that academic integrity is a
fundamental value which has to be carry by the student during his academic career. The
university also take this concern very seriously in order to protect their image in the eyes of
community. If any student misconduct in the academy then the university will take steps to
avoid it such as expel, fine and so on. The game is designed with various steps which
requires some skills to produce such as organised skills, research skills and many more.

References
Books and Journals:
Albrecht, V. and Clark, S., 2021. Post-disciplinary education with groups: In-person vs.
online. Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, 4(1), pp.137-137.
Bowden, J. A. and Green, P. J., 2019. Writing with integrity. In Playing the PhD Game with
Integrity (pp. 163-197). Springer, Singapore.
Keller, K. L. and Swaminathan, V., 2020. Strategic brand management: Building, measuring,
and managing brand equity. Harlow: Pearson.
LLANGOS, D., 2020. PUNITIVE MEASURESES AND SECURITY OF INTEGRITY IN THE
UNIVERSITY. Studia Securitatis, 14(2), pp.116-123.
Rea, J., 2018. Governance: University integrity undermined by declining public
investment. Advocate: Journal of the National Tertiary Education Union, 25(2),
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Ross, D. B., 2019. Global Digital Masked Bandits are Lurking on the Deep and Dark Web Who
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and Security.
San Jose, A., 2021. The Importance of Academic Integrity. GRIN Verlag.
Stephens, J., 2018. On Ending an Epidemic: Cultivating Academic Integrity in the
Academy. General Assembly of FIMPES (Mexican Federation of Private Institutions
of Higher Education) Universities' Presidents.
Tammeleht, A. and Et.al., 2019. Collaborative case-based learning process in research
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Wong, E. Y., Kwong, T. and Pegrum, M., 2018. Learning on mobile augmented reality trails of
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