{"id":287,"date":"2023-09-08T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/?post_type=part&p=287"},"modified":"2024-03-04T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T04:37:18","slug":"academic-integrity-and-professional-identity-we-become-what-we-practice","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/part\/academic-integrity-and-professional-identity-we-become-what-we-practice\/","title":{"raw":"Academic Integrity and Professional Identity: We Become What We Practice","rendered":"Academic Integrity and Professional Identity: We Become What We Practice"},"content":{"raw":"Laura Patterson\r\n\r\nCommunications<\/em>,\u00a0School of Engineering<\/em>, University of British Columbia<\/em>\r\n
\r\n\r\nAbstract:<\/strong> In this chapter, I address the connection between academic integrity and professional identity among undergraduate students as upcoming professionals. Specifically, I examine writing as a form of participation in a discourse community and, ultimately, as preparation for professional practice. I will also explore the concept of agency and demonstrate how practicing academic integrity addresses the question of \u201cwho do you want to be?\u201d as a professional, as well as allowing students to influence the current culture of their educational programs.\r\n\r\nKeywords:<\/strong> Identity, agency, discourse communities, professional integrity\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nIn the first exam season of 2020, after moving to online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our engineering department decided to raise students\u2019 awareness of expectations surrounding academic integrity by having students sign an integrity pledge before each exam, acknowledging the rules and expectations and promising to abide by them. Of course, we knew that this would not solve all integrity issues that might arise in the challenges of online exams. One engineering student emailed me asking what the point of the document was, and admitted that they were wondering what is so wrong with collaborating on an exam when everyone else is doing it. I admired their bravery to ask me such direct questions about integrity and their confusion over what \u201ccounts\u201d and what does not.\u00a0 When formulating a response, I reminded that student, and other students that issues of integrity, even seemingly small ones or ones that may never get caught, essentially come back to the inherent importance of integrity to one\u2019s professional and personal identity. Even if no one else sees or knows\u2014you do\u2014and you create expectations of yourself from witnessing patterns in your own behavior.","rendered":"

Laura Patterson<\/p>\n

Communications<\/em>,\u00a0School of Engineering<\/em>, University of British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n

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Abstract:<\/strong> In this chapter, I address the connection between academic integrity and professional identity among undergraduate students as upcoming professionals. Specifically, I examine writing as a form of participation in a discourse community and, ultimately, as preparation for professional practice. I will also explore the concept of agency and demonstrate how practicing academic integrity addresses the question of \u201cwho do you want to be?\u201d as a professional, as well as allowing students to influence the current culture of their educational programs.<\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/strong> Identity, agency, discourse communities, professional integrity<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the first exam season of 2020, after moving to online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our engineering department decided to raise students\u2019 awareness of expectations surrounding academic integrity by having students sign an integrity pledge before each exam, acknowledging the rules and expectations and promising to abide by them. Of course, we knew that this would not solve all integrity issues that might arise in the challenges of online exams. One engineering student emailed me asking what the point of the document was, and admitted that they were wondering what is so wrong with collaborating on an exam when everyone else is doing it. I admired their bravery to ask me such direct questions about integrity and their confusion over what \u201ccounts\u201d and what does not.\u00a0 When formulating a response, I reminded that student, and other students that issues of integrity, even seemingly small ones or ones that may never get caught, essentially come back to the inherent importance of integrity to one\u2019s professional and personal identity. Even if no one else sees or knows\u2014you do\u2014and you create expectations of yourself from witnessing patterns in your own behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-287","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/287\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ubcacademicintegrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}