When researching the different terms and meanings of plagiarism, academic integrity, and collusion the realization that even though they are very different words they have similarities and huge differences. Such as plagiarism meaning “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and pass them off as one’s own,” and collusion. Collusion meaning “a secret agreement, especially of fraudulent or treacherous purposes.” Reading these terms makes me see that when plagiarizing a paper, you are taking someone else’s hard work that they worked on for your own selfish reasons which is causing you to look like a fraud. And yet when speaking about academic integrity its basically switching subjects to the fact that academic integrity
