In Taylor's University, I have been exposed to the
academic integrity which is an ethical policy of academia in every subject that
I took. This includes values such as avoidance of cheating or plagiarism;
maintenance of academic standards; honesty and rigorous in research and
academic publishing. It helped me to
understand the ethical values in all activities related to learning, teaching,and research . Academic Integrity teach me to produce work or project
which has the originality derived by me from the material that I have learnt
throughout my studies and research instead of cheating or plagiarizing other
people’s hard work. It also helps me to re-evaluate, re-think, re-summarize, and
re-phrase the source obtained as a basis to enable me to create my own work. By
learning this academic integrity, it certainly improves my disciplinary
knowledge as well as my academic skills. I also have been taught about how to
put theories into practices.
For me, it is
important to adhere to the rule of academic integrity as it will lead me to be
an independent person with less supervision. Moreover, it taught me to be a trustworthy
person in doing my work hence it helps me to be a respected leader who appreciate
and live with those good values. Taylor’s University have outlined the importance
of academic integrity amongst it fellow students to ensure we are graduated
from their programs with the necessary skills required to participate
successfully in the community or workforce. Besides, it helped me towards becoming
a discipline person. Incidentally, this can increase the awareness amongst the
students and upholding the values of honesty, trust, fairness and
responsibilities.
I can apply this into my study when doing my task to
avoid plagiarism. This will make me think creatively, innovatively and out of
the box when completing assigned task. It taught me how to define and analyse
problems to arrive at effective solutions and not manipulating other’s work by
using the things that I have learnt such as summarizing, paraphrase, quoting
and others.
By having the appropriate knowledge with regards to
academic integrity it will lead me all the way in becoming a TGC graduate
embedded with proper fundamental knowledge, skills, abilities and qualities as
outlined by Taylor. A Taylor’s graduate who is equipped with TGC is not only
readily adaptable to the ever-challenging working environment, but also has the
ability to take on new tasks and jobs successfully. This ensures me as a
student to be able to acquire and demonstrate discipline-specific knowledge,
cognitive capabilities and soft skills. By learning academic integrity, it will
help develop my own graduate capabilities and learn to demonstrate those
important capabilities through reflection, portfolios and ultimately, a TGC
Award.
