Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethics

I have analyzed the relationship between academic integrity and writing, as well as the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics. I have also identified strategies I intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of my academic work while a student of the MSN program, as well as my professional work as a nurse throughout my career. The results of these efforts are shared below.

Directions: In the space below craft your analysis/writing sample, including Part 1 (The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity) and Part 2 (Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work).

Part 1: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Academic integrity is compliance with ethical and professional principles, standards, practices, and values, guiding actions and decision-making in education, research, and scholarship (Tauginienė et al., 2019). Academic integrity ensures that writing aligns with ethical practices in research and education. According to Guerrero-Dib et al. (2020), in the educational context, academic integrity is studying and carrying out academic work with justice and coherence. Writing is one of the vital aspects of educational programs because it involves research and presentation of work that can be used by the writer and other people pursuing education in different contexts. Without ethics in writing, education would shift its meaning of carrying out academic work with justice and coherence. Academic integrity and writing go hand in hand because writing involves quoting other people’s work and concepts created by others. Academic integrity ensures that writers acknowledge such work and are honest and ethical when making any form of academic writing.
Professional practices are also tied to scholarly ethics in various ways. Scholarly ethics binds nurses professionally and academically because it impacts their honesty in practice and decision-making. For instance, they will be involved in research, teaching, and learning. Scholarly ethics are vital when dealing with professional work because they impact the nurse as a professional and student. Grammarly is useful because it helps present quality and grammatically correct work. SafeAssign helps detect plagiarism in academic writing, which is important because it ensures that a writer acknowledges scholarly work and maintains honesty in writing, learning, and teaching. Paraphrasing is one of the best ways of avoiding plagiarism in academic work. It helps the student acknowledge the work of others while still presenting the work of others with originality.
References
Guerrero-Dib, J. G., Portales, L., & Heredia-Escorza, Y. (2020). Impact of academic integrity on workplace ethical behavior. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 16(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-020-0051-3
Tauginienė, L., Gaižauskaitė, I., Razi, S., Glendinning, I., Sivasubramaniam, S., Marino, F., Cosentino, M., Anohina-Naumeca, A., & Kravjar, J. (2019). Enhancing the taxonomies relating to academic integrity and misconduct. Journal of Academic Ethics, 17(4), 345–361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-019-09342-4