assignment

MAINTAINING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY BY AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

In Week 3, you reviewed the Academic Integrity portion of Walden’s Code of Conduct and signed a Promise to Practice According to Walden’s Code for Academic Integrity. As a nurse, you are empowered by practicing with the HIGHEST standards in both your nursing and academic writing practices.

This week, you will consider plagiarism and ways to strengthen your academic writing integrity. As a future nurse scholar-practitioner, you want to have the skill-set to successfully propose changes for quality and safety in healthcare. Your integrity in the collection and sharing of this evidence is foundational to successfully support your propositions to change practice.

Nurses need to be adequately prepared to successfully propose changes for quality and safety in healthcare. Your integrity in the collection and sharing of this evidence is foundational to successfully support propositions to change practice.

Plagiarism Prevention Resource Kit

The  Walden University Student Handbook  broadly defines plagiarism as the “use of intellectual material produced by another person without acknowledging its source” (“Plagiarism,” para. 1). Students come to Walden with a wide range of backgrounds, and some students may be less familiar with this definition of plagiarism—and the expectations that come with it—than others. Some students are new to paraphrasing, while other students are new to APA citation rules, both of which can be a challenge to avoiding plagiarism.

Walden has many resources to help students understand the expectations for accurately citing the sources they use in their writing. We have curated these resources in this kit, and we encourage you to use it to help you avoid plagiarism in your own writing.

· Review the resources at Walden’s Writing Center Plagiarism Prevention Resource Kit

The Assignment:

In 150 words or more:

· Describe how you will avoid plagiarism in your submitted assignments.

· Discuss how paraphrasing and synthesizing professional literature strengthens your future nurse scholar-practitioner practice.