Academic integrity, this thing really make me have a hard
time when doing the first assignment on Taylor, I was forced to be really
honest and responsible on my assignments to avoid plagiarism. We cannot copy
even a single sentence except we quote it. We need to paraphrase, referencing,
summary and all other more where I usually did it less before. Because before
came to Taylor my school at Indonesia, they didn’t really more focus on the
citation and the references where most of the information are from Wikipedia
and we just copy paste it without paraphrasing.
When I did my first assignment I had been confused and
stunned on doing it, it was really difficult and different from what I have
learnt before. The requirement was so high strict. When I was doing an
assignment, it was like final exam to me. It was much more harder than I
predicted. More over, English, I still lack of vocabulary and how to use
meaningful words on the right place. After the first assignment, I have been telling
myself that I should read more books and news, practice to write more essays because
if I don’t, I really cannot handle with the assignment given by the teacher. For now, it is still hard for me, but I think
I will become more used to it.
The teacher insisted on us to use the Havard Referencing
system on doing assignment, which is one of the hardest part for me on doing
the first assignment. I need to read, compare and paraphrase sentences on every
book I read related to my assignment. I usually seldom read books, so from
today on I have been telling myself to make library as my favourite place so I
can stay there and read some more books to expand my knowledge. For me who
never used to did that but this is because for my own good too so I need to
bear it.
I think what Taylor’s do is that is
the reason why I choose studying there too. Maybe for them it is really
important to adhere the rule of academic integrity because the originality of a
single hard work should be respected. That’s why the integrity exist, and I
think if one day I becoming an author of a book, I won’t wish that my works are
copied by other people without reference it. So I can understand why Taylor’s
did that for past few years and still using it until today. I hope this way of
learning will let us, students learn how to be proud of ourselves on our work
and later on the future market world, we won’t lose our own creativity to the
others and we can deliver each of our originality to the world.
