Reflection Paper On Plagiarism

Introduction

Academic integrity has been taken very seriously in the universities worldwide. The student need to use a code of conduct as a part of their study’s framework and plagiarism is one of the essential part of academic integrity and all student must take it seriously. The intention of this paper is to demonstrate an understanding of my views on nursing students can avoid plagiarism by give a reflection on an aspect of individual learning through the activities on “Avoiding plagiarism: guidance for nursing students” article. Reflection is a challenge for medical professionals as they can develop their existing knowledge as well as maximising their learning opportunity to avoid their mistakes which they might have been made before

The unintentional plagiarism might have happened from accidental, unacknowledged about the plagiarism which might come from the university provide inadequate information or do not have the strategy for students to avoid plagiarism. The students have right to appeal or explain during the investigation of academic dishonest. Secondly, I learnt how to use and reference the source material from websites as well as how important is to choose appropriate where I will take information to elaborate my assessment. Moreover, as a student, I have to verify how reliable is the website and how they provide their reference list and author. Thirdly, I have learnt how to paraphrases, and quotes from another people material. As well as the different between primary and secondary sources. Fourthly, I have learnt how to avoid the risk of plagiarism, I realised that my knowledge related to quotation, paraphrasing and summaries have been limited. Therefore direction and guides were necessary to prepare assignments and assessments. Also, I received support from “HELPS” (Higher Education Language and Presentation support). “HELPS” provides support to UTS students related to English and academic literacy (University of Technology of Sydney, 2018a). Finally, I have noticed how important is to understand the author idea appropriately, to

Das and Panjabi (2011) stated that the most common ethical issue in medical writing is plagiarism (Das & Panjabi, 2011), it is believed that avoid plagiarism is a fundamental of intellectual honesty. Plagiarism It is important to the career professional as it is an unethical and can have serious penalties for individual future. Moreover, plagiarism also weakens the standards of institution. This mean plagiarism affects both the student and the university. Nursing is a profession, thus nursing student needs to be prepared for continuing professional development throughout the nursing profession. Insufficient knowledge about plagiarism, intellectual property and copyrights can affect negatively in their academic performance, therefore be penalised by