Topic 7 : Academic Integrity And Performance

  • Topic 7

Academic Integrity

Definition of Academic Integrity

What is Academic Integrity?

  • Academic Integrity is honest and responsible in maintaining the originality of our own academic related affairs. Meaning that as a student we need to submit our original work and give credit to other people’s ideas. Thus, we need to avoid plagiarism.

How does UiTM defines academic dishonesty ?

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^ Therefore, based on the screenshot that i took UiTM defines academic dishonesty as a Plagiarism. Plagiarism meaning is the copying or stealing another person’s ideas.

Plagiarism

Definition of Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?

  • Plagiarism is the process when someone stealing another person’s ideas without give a credit to other people’s work and act like your own ideas for your benefit . This will commit into a serious legal.
  • As a students we should be honest and responsible to our own. If we did not take plagiarism as a serious crime, how can we get a great pointer later on?
Ways to avoid Plagiarism

What is considering as Plagiarism ?

  1. Turn someone else’s work as your own
  2. Copying so many words or ideas from the a sources that end up it make up the majority of your work .
  3. Stealing other people’s ideas without giving credit.
  4. Reproducing figures from another source without permission.
  5. Reusing your own previously published without citations.

A P A Format

Definition of APA Format

What is APA Format?

  • The full name of APA is American Psychological Association. It is the sixth edition of Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. It is a writing style and format for academic documents such as journal articles. It most commonly used to cite a sources.

Where can you find APA Format ?

  • We can find it on Mendeley and Endnote
Example of guidelines on how to write APA Format

5 sources of references examples are as follows :

  1. Beck, S. E. (1997; 2009). Evaluation Criteria. Retrieved from http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction_backup/evalcrit.html
  2. Georgian College Library. (2017). APA Writing & Citing Guide. Retrieved from http://library.georgiancollege.ca/citing/exercises
  3. iParadigms LLC. (2014). Plagiarism.org. Retrieved from http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-
  4. Turnitin LLC. (2016). Resources. Retrieved from http://en.writecheck.com/ways-to-avoid-plagiarism/
  5. The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue University. (1995-2017). General Format. Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resources/560/01

Activities for students:

G P A and C G P A

Definition of GPA and CGPA

What is GPA ?

  • GPA or Grade Point Average is the total credit values registered and attempted in the assessment of a semester.

What is CGPA ?

  • CGPA or Cumulative Grade Point Average is the total credit values registered and attempted in the assessment of all semester.

Method on how to calculate GPA

How to calculate GPA ?

Guidelines on how to calculate GPA

GPA WORKSHEET

~ GPA Worksheet : Complete activity from file ” Topic 7 GPA Acitivity 1.docx “

  • Questions

Students with extremely unsatisfactory academic performance can be dismissed from his study. The status of Dismissed (D) that can be given to students include:

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