Arden University BUS003: Academic Skills Portfolio of Tasks

This academic portfolio, created for the BUS003 Developing Academic Skills module at Arden University, addresses the assignment brief's requirements. It begins with an introduction to academic integrity, emphasizing honesty, trust, fairness, responsibility, and respect. The portfolio then delves into practical application, starting with a detailed study timetable incorporating time management techniques for the module's duration, including commitments such as work, family, and leisure. The assignment also includes an explanation of the time management methods used. Furthermore, the portfolio tackles referencing, providing instructions on how to avoid plagiarism through correct citation, and offers tips on how to correctly cite sources, including guidelines on formatting, paraphrasing, and the use of et al. The document includes a reference list in the required AU Harvard format, demonstrating the student's understanding of academic integrity and referencing standards.

Trust: Mutual trust must be promoted within the
academic setting so as to build a good and
cordial relationship between the professors and
the students enrolled in the academic
environment.
The institutional authorities set the systemic
guidelines for the assignment and the code of
conduct that needs to be followed so as to
achieve the assignment objectives and target. the
students are required to complete the assigned in
accordance with the guidelines and procedures
set out by the institutional authorities (Menz,
2020). Trust is developed when both the parties
to justice to their role and promote fair
judgement as well as execution.
Academic Integrity
INTRODUCTION
Academic Integrity can be characterised as a
promise to demonstrate moralistic and honest
demeanour while undertaking an academic
activity, task, assignment or courses. It is a very
essential practice that needs to be learned by
students so as to give the credit to the deserving
individuals who have helped them in the
completion of their academic work (Flaherty
and Taylor, 2021). It can be termed as a
practice that provides adequate assistance to the
students so as to illustrate and implement new
and innovative ideas. The fundamental values
that needs to be exhibited in order to exhibit
academic integrity are mentioned below:
Honesty: The respective fundamental lays
concern over the fact that the academic
activities needs to be conducted with honesty in
order to facilitate the enhancement of the
credibility of the academia work prepares and
presented by the individual.
• Fairness: The communities perpetrating
to the academic setting needs to
implement clear and well defined
instructions and expectations so as to
alleviate transparency in the academic
functions. The students, professors and
the administration department needs to
showcase fairness and equity in their
respective roles in order to encourage
academic integrity.
• Responsibility: Responsibility can be
termed as the individual accountability
towards their own work. The respective
foundation emphasis over the fact that
individuals are entitles to take full
responsibility for their action and
behaviours as well as the work
showcased by them. It believes that every
individual that is a part of the academic
environment needs to be possess
willingness to take the responsibility for
safeguarding as well as the protecting the
academic integrity of the community.

How to a Respect: Respect can be considered as
one of the building blocks for academic
integrity? Academic institutions and
communities are required to respect each other's
opinions and be considerate and acceptable
towards each other values and beliefs so as to
promote respect in the academic environment.
Respect is driving factor that lead to academic
integrity with the academic communities and
also promotes smooth and peaceful academic and
learning activities.
Void Plagiarism:
There are various tips and tricks available in the
environment that can help the students to
conduct their work with the authenticity
(Bradley, 2020). The reduction or elimination of
plagiarism from the academic work can be
achieved through the below mentioned tips:
• An individual is required to keep a
detailed and systemic record of the
sources that are taken into
consideration while researching for a
particular concept or topic.
• It is advisable to students to cite their
work appropriately. In order to do the
same, the guidelines and standards set
for the academic work needs to be
taken into consideration.
• This will help the student to cite
accurately and to avoid the chances of
getting unnecessary plagiarism.
• Paraphrasing can also help the
students in order to avoid plagiarism
in their respective work. It is
technique wherein an individual
acknowledges and rewards a sentence
of any other individual buy writing the
same in its own language without
misinterpreting the meaning of
sentence.
• Adding necessary value to the
sentences is also very vital in order to
reduce plagiarism and to intensify the
quality of work. An individual should
not utilise all the data and information
available through sources. Students
should also showcase their own
understanding and apprehension about
How to reference correctly:
In order to reference correctly, an individual need
to concentrate on the following below mentioned
points:
• Reference needs to be listen on a
separate page or sheet in order to
illustrate them in an organised as clear
manner (Dreisbach, 2020).
• Double spacing is very important and is
non-negotiable. There should be spaces
within each line of text in an orderly
manner.
• It is essential for the students to
incorporate the author's or writer's name
wherever necessary in order increase the
authenticity as well as legitimacy of the
project work.
• The surname of the author needs to be
included primarily and then the initials
needs to be depicted in the same.
• In case, the authors list increases more
than three, then the writer can cite the
name of any first author, and for the
remaining ones “et al” can be utilised.
References
Flaherty, C. and Taylor, M., 2021. Developing
Academic Skills for Nursing Associates. Learning
Matters.
Menz, M., 2020. Integrating Academic Skills and
Employability-Revisiting the Learning
Journal. Journal of Research in Higher
Education, 4(2).
Bradley, P., 2020. Academic skills in the screenish
era. Journal of the European Honors
Council, 4(1), pp.1-4.