Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 3: Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethics

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Academic and Professional Success Plan Template
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Week 3 | Part 3: 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: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

In the space below write a 2- 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

An explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
Academic writing requires the scholar to consume others' work and come up with something new and original out of it. A scholar needs to crystallize existing literature and form new original ideas out of it. Therefore, the very nature of academic writing is to build on what others have come up with. Because it is inevitable to use other scholars' ideas, work, and words, you must acknowledge them in your writing. Acknowledging the work of other scholars is maintaining academic integrity. Any academic work that lacks academic integrity is considered plagiarized, which attracts various penalties. In some cases, if a professional is found to have committed an academic crime, he/she can lose his/her accreditation and or license. All academic institutions have policies designed to ensure that all students/scholars observe academic writing rules and produce original ideas without plagiarizing.
An explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
Professional practice is the use of one’s knowledge in a particular profession for which he/she is trained and was tutored. Acquiring knowledge for the specific profession necessitates the individual to undergo an educational program created and regulated by a professional body. The professional's training requires taking various research activities presented for evaluation to determine their theoretical understanding of the necessary knowledge to work in the profession. In most institutions that offer professional courses, they administer examinations and require the students to conduct scientific research to develop new original ideas. Because of the complexity and effort to develop these new original ideas, some students often take shortcuts by plagiarizing their work to earn better grades/marks and be accredited for that profession. Plagiarism is the use of another person's ideas or expressions in your writing without acknowledging the source CITATION Dav08 \l 1033 (Nimmer, 2008). Scholarly ethics guide the scholar through these processes, which require them to come up with new original ideas. Scholarly ethics set...