Exploring

Exploring Integrity

Nowadays, information is easy to find. You can find poems and essays written by other people with the click of your mouse. It is easy to download songs and movies online, but is it right to download them for free?


In the remainder of this module, you will think about integrity as an important personal quality and an academic necessity. This quality is an admirable one, and it impacts so many parts of our lives, including the choices we make and our relationships with others (to name a few!).

Academic Integrity

Often, we consider integrity to mean 'doing the right thing' even when it is inconvenient for us. Integrity focuses on our innate sense of right and wrong. Integrity directs us to be truthful in our relationships with others. Integrity encourages us to be honest with our families, peers, and those around us.

Integrity inspires trust.

Academic integrity is very important, especially for students. When we have integrity, we take ownership of what we do and what we know. Academic integrity means that we acknowledge information that is not ours by providing information for the reader about our sources. Academic integrity requires practice so that it becomes a habit. By practising academic integrity, we are more likely to have integrity in other parts of our lives.

Having academic integrity allows all of us to build knowledge. Those who read your work will have an opportunity to read what you have read and build on what you have read. This is how new ideas are born and innovations in our society are made!