English for Business Purposes

Reflective Journal

Academic integrity is based on a think that students in any learning institution will follow the honest methods of learning and doing assessment even they are faced with stressful situations. The way to achieve educational integrity is by learning how to reference correctly. Referencing gives so many benefits both the writer and the reader. It is able to gain our writing skill and helps those people who read easy to understand. Referencing is very helpful for the reader since it shows the extent of our research, strengthening our argument, our source of argument is shown to the reader, and the reader is allowed to consult and verify our sources independently.

Using someone else’s ideas or working without referencing and submit it as our own work is called as plagiarism. Then, if we want to use it in our assignment, referencing or citing is a must. By learning the Harvard system of referencing to avoid plagiarism, I have learned how to do a paraphrase, summarise, quote and copy. Paraphrase is changing someone else’s words in our own. It makes me become more creative to expand a sentence in different way but still has the same meaning. Summarise is using someone else’s idea in our own words but we reduce it which makes it become more simple and easier to understand. Quote is copy the same sentence as the original then makes it in a quote; however this method can’t be used so many times. Thus copy only can be used in reproduce a diagram, graph or table.

After learning the Harvard system, the way I wrote my first assignment was really different. Copying the same sentence from an article or something else is avoided. Creating my own sentence become more often to be done even it has the same meaning. I also use quotations when I can’t find the way to change it in different sentence. Harvard system also requires referencing list in the end of assignment. That’s why, in the end of my first assignment, there is reference list which include the author, date of the article is made, date of the article is viewed, title, name of publisher, place of publication, page number and the link of the online source.

In my personal preference, it is very important to adhere to the rule of academic integrity since we have to be more cherish to other people’s work. We can’t just take their work which is definitely hard to do and tell it as our hard work. And it also can teach us to be more responsible to everything we do.

Academic integrity really gives so many impacts in my first assignment. I become more confidence and understand with my own work. Surely in my next assignment not only for English but also another subject, I can apply this to make my assignments better. Besides help me to do my assignments, Academic Integrity also gives benefit in my future working life, such as my research paper during semester 5 and also when I work in the future. It will show my own hard work thus I can be proud of myself when produce satisfactory results.