Academic integrity

Part 3 of the Academic and Professional Success Development Plan: a writing sample on the connection between academic and professional integrity, plus strategies for maintaining integrity as an MSN student and as a practising nurse. This guide separates the two explanations the brief asks for, and explains why a similarity score is not a plagiarism measure in either direction.

A COM 1100 Unit 5 discussion post: of four listed options — poor time management, the ease of copying from the internet, struggling with the topic, and the belief that anything online is free to use — decide which is the most common reason students continue to plagiarize, and say how students can avoid it.

Three examples of plagiarism, then three separate consequences — the integrity of a baccalaureate degree, the public's perception of nursing, and evidence-based practice — and finally two things you will do. Five components, and the middle three are usually collapsed into one.

The failure this discussion is aimed at is not copying. It is patchwriting — changing enough words to feel safe while keeping the original's structure — which is plagiarism even with a citation attached.