Plagiarism Can Harm Your Academics Or Career

1. Identify and explain two examples of plagiarism, and describe specifically how plagiarism could harm your academics or career. Make a personal pledge to adhere to each area of the Code of Conduct and guidelines for academic integrity, and what specific strategies you will use to accomplish this (University of the People, 2016). Consider how you will conduct your research and writing, etc.
"Plagiarism can be of many different natures, ranging from copying texts to adopting ideas, without giving credit to its originator," (Alzahrani, Salim, & Abraham, 2012). Plagiarism can appear in many different forms, some intentional and others not.
One example of plagiarism would be direct plagiarism, meaning, "word-for-word transcription of a section

Following my pledge, there are multiple ways to ensure that I do not plagiarize anything throughout my academic career. One way would be the use of citations; if I find documents ( essays, peer reviewed journal articles, new reports, etc.) that were relevant to my research, I would cite where I found the information thereby accrediting my source. Another way to avoid plagiarism would be quoting directly from the reference and incorporating it directly into my paper. For example, "According to Anna, Stentor violins create the most harmonious sounds compared to other violin brands" (2016). I tend to stay away from paraphrasing any reference into my academic work because depending on the language used and such, some my interpret is as using synonyms and thereby concluding that it is plagiarized

I 've been playing piano since I was 3 years old and I have become a talented musician and writer especially anything that leans toward the operatic side of music. When I was 14, I had a friend doing a masters in vocal and wanted to perform a piece of her own. She developed the lyrics and I created a composition between violin, piano and French horn. She presented it as her final thesis work and it was accepted. Another student in her class had heard the piece and decided to use parts of the song and said that myself and my friend had given her permission to use the composition as her own. In the end she was dismissed from her masters as a