Introduction to Graduate Studies

This paper is going define the differences between professional and academic ethics and why they are important. I will define the Kaplan University's policy on plagiarism and the consequences that will be opposed if caught and help clarify how to avoid charges of academic dishonesty. I going to provide you with some examples too show what the impact on professional and academic ethics is. Finally, I will lay out my plan of action for maintaining both professional and academic ethics.

Professional ethics is how individuals in the professional world reacts to or face problems that arise from ethical issues. As businesses become focused with occupational skill sets, ethical issues become more difficult and tough. Organizations in the professional world have started working to develop, revisit or fine tune their codes of moral values. Organizations have published these codes of moral values so their professional workforce can practice them. The moral values continue to have high standards. For example, what if there is an issue within health or safety concerns, the management is under additional stress to act than individuals who don't act on them. Truthfully, it's the development, and selfless pride, associated with these codes of moral values. To be a successful organization, professional that work within, should live by those codes of moral values day to day and if an individual sees something that is unethical they should report it. So to further define professional code of ethics it is "the explicit, discipline-specific rules of behavior for members of a profession, which are developed to protect people the profession serves, ensures the competence of members, and safeguard the integrity and trustworthiness of the discipline". (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2008).

Academic ethics is how students have the responsibility to educate themselves about the University they are attending policy letters dealing with Academic ethics and ways to avoid the actions that can be opposed on them for violating policy. Students should silently par take a faithful commitment not to be dishonest and uphold the integrity that all students hold while doing their own work. Students should be able to uphold the plagiarism policy when submitting their work with the proper citations and give the credit where the credit is due. Students should know up front what the Professor and the University expects from them at the beginning of each semester they are enrolled. Students that follow the policy's that are in place are maintaining the highest degree of academic ethics and the ones that do not hold to the highest degree are reported to the Provost's Office or Dean of the University.

Kaplan University's policy on plagiarism states that there are three consequences; the first offense will be failure for that certain assignment, the second offense will failure of the entire class in which you are enrolled