Week 6 Blog POST

I feel these research practices will affect my research by allowing me to have my own independent thinking. By infusing my own ideas with others to come up with a better and more efficient way, I will create a unique end result. I think academic integrity is important because it exercises your honesty and the type of person you are. Also, it shows the values that are instilled in you. Plagiarism to me is un-ethical and taking someone else’s work or idea is not fulfilling the maximum potential of your brain. Intellectual property is one of the best attributes you could have because it works the creativity part of the brain and eventually you could apply for a patent or trademark. Knowing these different types of practices could help me perform better in my every day thinking and writing. Not having academic integrity, copying someone else’s work, could stunt my own intellectual, professional and academic growth in the long run. Also it just will not sit right with me just knowing it is not coming from my own intellectual properties.  That is not a risk I will ever be willing to take.