ASSIGNMENT ON PLAGIARISM AND ACADEMIC WRITING

PRINCIPLES AND FEATURES

Lyndon Jay V. Sulit

Detecting plagiarism in submitted articles is one of the most challenging

responsibilities for reviewers and editors. Although various technological programs
are available for plagiarism testing, human judgment ultimately determines if
plagiarism has happened. Similar to crime detection, understanding the criminal's
thought process is beneficial.

Academic integrity, which refers to representing yourself and your academic

work accurately throughout your education, is one of the principles of plagiarism.
Because plagiarism breaches academic integrity when you portray someone else's
work as your own, you are effectively claiming to have worked and learnt in a way
that you have not done. All students are expected to uphold academic integrity and
refrain from requesting grades or credits that they have not earned through the
course's regular work since rates and course credits are only valuable if they
correctly reflect your work and learning.

Academic integrity is something that colleges and universities take extremely

seriously since it affects almost everything we do. Faculty cannot treat students
properly if one student can receive a higher mark than another without deserving it.
This is because they cannot effectively assess what pupils have learned and what
they have not. Additionally, if universities let students obtain credits without working
for them, they risk losing their financing, reputation, and accreditation as
institutions that provide degrees.

Academic writing is a form of language used by scholars to outline the

intellectual limits of their respective fields of study and areas of specialization.
Academic writing is intended to communicate a community of scholarly experts and
practitioners' shared understanding of complicated ideas or concepts, much like the
specialty languages used in professions like law or medicine. A professional tone,
using the third person rather than the first person (typically), a clear emphasis on
the research question being explored, and careful word choice are all traits of
academic writing.

Clear focus or clarity is one of the characteristics of academic writing. Many

students employ lengthy, unique phrases just because they appear to be more
eloquent. Eliminate as many participles, passive verbs, adjectives, and terms you
just looked up in the dictionary as possible. Use simple words if they effectively
communicate your points. Another quality of effective academic writing is that it is
laser-focused on the question. This is a sign of excellent writing, but it is crucial for
academic writing since it is more purposeful than discursive. The reader does not
need to "read between the lines" to infer what you are saying since the message of
what you desire to express is crystal apparent. It is therefore composed with a
specific objective in mind rather than to amuse.