STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethics Student’s Name Professor’s Name Institutional Affiliations Course Name and Number Due Date Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethics Part 2, Section 1 Academicians consider academic integrity a fundamental regulation researchers and other scholars should observe in their writing. Eaton and Hughes (2022) describe academic integrity as compliance with established educational moral values, including respect, fairness, honesty, and responsibility. As a result, individuals must demonstrate these values in their writing, ensuring they produce authentic work free of plagiarism. Eaton and Hughes (2022) support this observation by highlighting that recognizing the source of arguments or concepts used to expand their ideas through appropriate in-text citations and references reflects honesty emphasized in integrity. Such an aspect also promotes fairness by accrediting other authors and displays a writer’s sense of responsibility in enriching existing literature by accurately presenting facts. Thus, academic integrity directly influences writing by enforcing moral values among the authors. Professional practices and scholarly ethics display a bidirectional relationship. For instance, Eaton and Hughes (2022) indicate that learners in higher education model their behavior by complying with educational ethics of honesty and responsible writing. The authors clarify that this tendency facilitates knowledge acquisition and intellectual development, which they demonstrate during their professional practice. Eaton and Hughes (2022) confirm that honest students normalize remaining genuine and responsible through compliance with scholarly ethics and transition with this behavior to their workplaces. As a result, their ability to apply evidence-based practices, use healthcare resources responsibly, and treat their patients fairly reflects the ethics they gained while completing their scholarly work. Thus, unlike unethical students, ethical learners often become professionals conversant with their practice. Various stud...