Understanding Academic Integrity and 21st Century Perspectives on Plagiarism and Copy Right Infringement
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2022
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Crawford University Press
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This study was motivated by the alarming rate of academic dishonesty, plagiarism and copy right infringement practices within the academic environment. The writers have examined the situation of academic dishonesty within the cycle and have seen that the rate of academic misconduct in higher institutions of learning is quite disheartening. Experiences have also shown that in every corporate organization, there is an acceptable standard, a corporate culture or code of conduct that must be upheld. Things are not just done anyhow in an academic environment. Also it is observed that most students, staff and faculty members have a vague sense of what academic integrity means. The writers have unequivocally discussed this topic in the following format: types of academic fraud and dishonesty, plagiarism, reason for plagiarism, types of plagiarism, penalties for plagiarism, how to detect plagiarism, common ways to avoid plagiarism, copyright law, copyright infringement, types of copyright infringement, examples of copyright infringement, penalties for copyright infringement. The authors recommended that disciplinary committee should setup to try offenders and perpetrators of evil must be brought to book and if found guilty, he or she must be punished according to the gravity of their offences as stipulated in the hand book or condition of service without fear of favour, secondly, the body that regulate higher institutions of learning such National Universities Commission (NUC), National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) should display high level of integrity and transparency while discharging their duties among others. They concluded that academic environment is where intellectual minds are expected to be trained. Therefore administrators of academic environment must adopt all necessary measures to ensure that academic fraud and dishonesty are eliminated from the system
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Nwaogu, H. O. and Ozonuwe, O. S. (2022). Understanding Academic Integrity and 21st Century Perspectives on Plagiarism and Copy Right Infringement. Crawford University Press. 85-111.