Research Integrity in Scholarly Writing: A Global Perspective
Md. Amir Hossain
Citation : Md. Amir Hossain , Research Integrity in Scholarly Writing: A Global Perspective International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature 2017,5(11) : 14-27.
'Integrity' is deeply related to honesty. In the literal meaning, there is no basic difference between integrity as well as honesty. Integrity is a noble virtue, without it, we cannot think of our existence, even we cannot proceed further to acquire any noble knowledge, or to fulfill any noble mission. But we sometimes fail to evaluate the true meaning and significance of the word, 'Integrity.' I think, we should practice it in our daily life so that we can realize and find out the reality of integrity in our real life circumstances. Otherwise, we will be victimized automatically. At the same time, we should bear in mind that truth shall come over today or tomorrow. So we should avoid dishonesty; and through honesty, we will have to lead our noble mission for any practical purposes. Then we will understand that real mission should never fail, we will be able to achieve integrity by honest criticism. In this research paper, I would like to express some viewpoints of mine regarding Research Integrity in Research Writing and/or Scholarly Writing, like any Research Proposal, Article Writing, Review Writing, Short Commentary, Conference or Seminar Paper, Monograph, Essay Writing, Thesis, Dissertation, Assignment, and Term Paper as well. When any research scholar plans to carry out a Scientific Research Project on any specific fields, what he has gathered experience and knowledge; he must have a pondering sense on integrity. Without it, he may not come out successful. Throughout the globe, there is a massive campaign regarding research integrity in the scholarly writing: Plagiarism free research writing should be our only motto. If there is no research integrity among the young research scholars, how can any supervisors or academicians expect a minute research project from them? In my opinion, the research scholars should have some honest targets while writing any types of research project, they should have practical sense of specific qualities as follows: research discipline, truthfulness and faithfulness, selfconfidence, nobility, integrity, patriotic feeling to research, gratefulness, devotion, research erudition, research methodology, publication ethics, liberal attitudes, professional encouragement, peer review, research acknowledgement, cooperation and friendship, research environment, references, innovation, new trends of research, motivation and inspiration, capability of spreading research knowledge, free and fair research knowledge, and so on. If the research scholars are enabled to acquire these noble qualities, they will surely establish a research integrity realm in the potential project. Anyway, Research Integrity should be our only expectation in Scholarly Writing.