Question

List three examples of plagiarism and discuss how plagiarizing as astudent affects the integrity of a baccalaureate degree, the publicperception of the nursing profession, and evidence-based practice.Describe two things you will do to ensure academic integrity in your work.

Answer 1

Plagiarism is an act of copying others work in simple term.

Some of the examples of plagiarism are

• A student when given an assignment, directly copies the content from the texts, websites ,others sources as such is a method of presenting someone's work without their effort .This is called to be direct plagiarism
• If the copying is done from different sources it is tetmed yo be mosaic plagiarism
• An other example of plagiarism is just copying a paragraph and presenting it as their own work

It can affect the students career in the following way

• The student will not be knowledgeable
• Doesn't understands when a question is asked in a different way
• It affects their performance
• It can easily reflect when they are attending an interview for a job
• Lacks critical thinking nature and always depends on others for their problems
• There are high chances for failure
• The public perception are a sense of doubt ,lack of confidence on the professionals when doing their services

Some of the things to ensure academic integrity in work are

• Being updated in the field of practice (current invention, research, technologies and advancement )
• Continuing the education program
• Reading enhances once knowledge and this will ensure to stay away from plagiarism .