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.
