Academic Accountability
Definitions
An academic voice is the use of grammatical rules that ensure that one’s work fits the requirements of the course and assignment. According to Ashford University (2019), the use of an academic voice should incorporate the use of one’s ideas in a concise way and support of one’s arguments using evidence. On the other hand, plagiarism is the presentation of ideas that are not your own without giving acknowledgement to the owners of the material (University of Oxford, 2020). As such, to plagiarize means to use unoriginal ideas in one’s arguments.
Rewrite of the Passage
Correlation and causation have similarities, but they should not be mistaken to mean the same thing. For instance, a correlation may refer to variables that relate to one another but do not necessarily affect one another. On the other hand, causation refers to variables that affect one another. In this case, without further evidence, one should never assume that correlated variables have a causative relationship (Feenstra, 2020). Case in point, when a spike in violent crime is accompanied by an increase in consumption of ice cream, we cannot conclude that one causes the other until we conduct more research. Various things could be blamed for this behaviour such as heat whereby heat could be causing both the increase in consumption of ice cream and an increase in violent crime. However, because they do not affect each other, this relationship will be termed a correlation.
What are some key features of academic writing that might be particularly relevant within your program/intended career?
According to the University of York (n/d), the features of academic writing include formality, accuracy, objectivity, hedging, structure, complexity and responsibility. For my intended career, objectivity and hedging will be most useful because, firstly, in most cases what one feels is not as relevant as what one can prove, my arguments will need to be unbiased. Equally, I’ll need to demonstrate hedging because my work could be used to make essential decisions; hence I should be able to indicate the strength of my findings.
Types of plagiarism
Of the ten types of plagiarism, the one I have the most trouble with is the recycle (Turnitin, 2012). For the reason that, once I understand an idea, I will find myself regularly using it to explain different concepts and it always comes out the same way.
Strategies to avoid the error
To avoid applying the recycle plagiarism, I will work on looking at each new project independently, whereby I will attempt not to repeat arguments I had used in previous works.