Developing Game: Strategies for Avoiding Plagiarism and Misconduct

This project report details the design of a game, 'Fun Card,' aimed at helping students develop strategies to avoid plagiarism and academic misconduct. The report outlines the game's objectives, which include improving students' understanding of academic integrity and enhancing their writing skills. It provides instructions for playing the game, emphasizing the importance of academic integrity in fostering learning, future employment prospects, and maintaining the quality of teaching. The report also reflects on the skills developed during the game design process, such as writing, presentation, time management, and creativity. Ultimately, the project concludes that academic integrity is crucial for students' success and the game serves as an engaging tool to promote ethical academic practices.

Game Design

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Designing a game for students that develop strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic
misconduct...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Instruction of playing game:........................................................................................................3
Explanation of importance of Academic integrity:.....................................................................3
Reflection over skills...................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Plagiarism is one of problems faced by students in their academic life. It is an act of using others
work as our own without giving them creating and also without their acknowledgement. It is
important for a student to overcome of these problems as it results in legal penalties, punishment
and other things. It can create impact over image of organisation. This project report includes
designing of a game that helps to develop different strategies for purpose of avoiding academic
misconduct and plagiarism. It is also consist instruction for playing game and explanation of
important of academic integrity at university. Moreover, it explains summer of different skills to
be used for development of game.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Designing a game for students that develop strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic
misconduct
Plagiarism: Plagiarism refers to a process of using others words, ideas, thoughts and options and
using it as our own without giving them acknowledgement. It consists all different types of
published and unpublished material, printed forms, manuscripts. It can be done intentionally or
unintentionally and cover different regulation for examination. Academic misconduct is another
problem which consist different cheating which occur in context of academic exercise. There are
different types of academic misconduct take place which are to be consider by universities
seriously for purpose of providing education to students in efficient and appropriate manner.
There are various examples of academic misconduct like plagiarism, collusion falsification,
cheating, personation and many more. In order to overcome of this, teachers need to adopt
different strategies as it can create impact over reputation of university and also knowledge of a
student. There are different games can be designed by teachers which assist students to
understand important of academic integrity and also helps them to develop new skills. It also
helps students to avoid plagiarism in their content and also helps to avoid academic misconduct.
Game for avoiding plagiarism helps students for purpose of avoiding legal penalties. Different
tools and strategies help students to avoid plagiarism problems in their academic life. Fun card is
a game which assist teachers in order to avoid problems of plagiarism among students also
provide them opportunity to develop new skills among students. It improves writing skills of
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students, improve their knowledge and helps them to understand importance of academic
integrity. Academic integrity which is followed by universities does not giving permission
tostudents to use content of others as them on without acknowledgement of then. Fund card
game can improve writing skills of a person which allow them to writing their research paper by
their own and also improve SEO rank of a person. Academic integrity helps a person to complete
their assignment with dedication and sincerity which helps to improve their knowledge.
Fun Card is a game which allow students to develop new skills and also helps them to overcome
of problems of plagiarism. It is one of game which allow a person to identify plagiarism in their
work and also helps them to know how to overcome of its. It is also a game which helps students
to understand grammatical errors and also quality of their work. It is one of game which is
designed on basis of problems faced by students in completion of assessment without plagiarism.
It provides solution to different problems and also helps them to develop different skills and
provide opportunity to them to build career. This game is essential in order to promote academic
integrity and consist interesting question which increase interest of students to play this game.
There are different types of things are to be linked with this game which allow students to
understand their mistakes and also helps teachers to identify weakness of students. It also assists
teachers to improve their students with understanding of their problems.
TASK 2
Plagiarism is a complex problem which is faced by teachers and students in academic life at time
while writing of any research paper. It results in different problems for students as they need to
face penalties, termination and other punishments at universities. There are different problems to
be faced by a teacher in order to avoid problems of plagiarism among students. For purpose of
avoiding plagiarism, different game can be designing. Among these, one of game is Fun Card
that is simple and effective game which provide effective solution to overcome of problems
related to academic misconduct and plagiarism. For playing this game, different rules need to be
prepared for players and also instruction, instruction allow students to understand about games
and its rules. This instruction to play Fun Card game is mentioned below:
Game: Fun Card is a card-based game which helps teachers to avoid problem of plagiarism
among students.
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Objectives of Game: Objectives of Fund Card game is to helps students to overcome of
problems of academic misconduct and avoiding plagiarism. This game will also help students
improve their knowledge related to plagiarism and also helps them to enhance their knowledge.
Instruction of playing game:
 There are three students can play this game at one time and teacher awork as instructor
who will helps them to play this game.
 For this, some cards are required in which, some numbers are written on one side of card
whereas interesting topic related to real life is written on another side of card.
 Students needs to choose a number from one to fifty to play this game. Same is also
needs to do other two players of game.
 After this they can see the card and needs to write about the topic on a computer within a
given period of time.
 Players needs to write about these topics within 5 minutes and needs to submit their work
to teachers.
 Teachers with analysation of their work checking plagiarism in their work and also check
grammatical errors.
 The students, who avoid much plagiarism in their content long with having good
grammar and good quality of content will get more marks in compare to other students
whose content has plagiarism.
 The students who will get more and more points will win this game.
This game not lonely helps students to avoid plagiarism but also improve their written skills. It is
one of important game for students as it helps teachers to helps students to have some fun along
with good learning skills. It protects students from academic misconduct which can create
negative impact over their academic life.
Explanation of importance of Academic integrity:
Academic integrity is one of important aspect in life of students, university and for purpose of
innovation and development of new ideas. There are different factors to be included in academic
integrity like courage, trust, respect, honesty and responsibility. These values can be challenged
by students as if they are not adopting rules and regulation of academic integrity in their life. It
creates serious impact over academic life of students and can also results in termination from
university, penalties and bad impression in minds of teachers and other students. It also creates
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impact over image of university. Adopting of academic integrity for students are more important
as it allow them to enhance skills and creativity of a person and also allow them to boost their
knowledge and learning. Importance of academic integrity for a student at university is
mentioned below:
For improving learning: Academic integrity is important in life of a student for purpose of
avoiding misconduct related to academics and provide opportunity to a student to focus on
learning. It is essential for purpose of learning new things and also developing new things. It
allows them to develop new values and ethics which are important for building good career
opportunity.
Future employment: Academic integrity assist a student to develop new values in them which
is important for them to focus on their work and studies. It provides them to develop
opportunities in life which is essential for a person in order to get success. in life. It allows them
to finds best employment opportunity and also provide them success in life.
Maintaining quality of teaching: Academic integrity assist students to adopt all rules and
regulation. It allows them to complete a work with loyalty and also allow them to learn new
things in an effective manner which allow them to complete a work with their own. Academic
integrity also allows teachers to adopt best process which improve knowledge of students and
also protect them to waste their time.
Helps to avoid misconduct: Academic integrity also helps students to avoid academic
misconduct which can be done with cheating, plagiarism and other things in academic life of a
student. It is important for them for purpose of completing assignment on time and also allow
them to write assignment in a way which helps to avoid plagiarism.
Reflection over skills
There are different types of skills required by a person for purpose of designing a game that
helps to avoid plagiarism and other misconduct. These skills allow me to design game more
interest and efficient which create interest of students to play this game. Some of these skills
developed by me are as follows:
Writing skills: Writing skills are one of important skills which is requited by me for purpose of
write game and its instruction. It is an essential skill for purpose of avoiding plagiarism in
context of a person. With designing of game, I understand importance of avoiding plagiarism and
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also helps me to develop these skills. It helps to write instruction in a way which can be
understand by any person.
Presentation skills: Presentation skills are another important skill which is required by a person
for purpose of presenting their ideas in effective manner. It is a skill which is developed by me
during designing of game. It helps me to use different ideas, thoughts and other things which are
required by them for designing a game.
Time management Skills: Time management skills is developed by me during designing of a
game. In order to design a game, I need to manage my whole schedule in order to avoid negative
impact over my studies. I manage my schedule in a way which allow me to saves time for
designing game attending classes, completion of different assignment of time. It is a skill which
not only helps me in present time but also helps me in future period of time.
Creativity Skills: Creativity is also required in designing a game as it helps a person for purpose
of complete a work in unique manner. It helps a person to develop new ideas and innovative
thoughts which are important in order to make their work more effective. Creativity is required
by a person for purpose of complete a work a work in effective manner and also helps them to
design game in a manner which gain interest of under. It is essential in perspective of main game
more interesting which is important in order to allow students to have fund by playing this game.
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that academic integrity is important in
life of a students as it consist different values which helps them to overcome of problems relation
to academic misconduct and plagiarism. There are different types of skills to be required for
purpose of development of a game like writing skills, communication skills, time management
skills and many more. Academic integrity is required by a students at university as it helps them
to protect their reputation and allow them to fucus on studies instead of non-productive work.
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