Building Academic Honesty in Scientific Writing

Abstract

Character has become a central aspect of education. It has given much more influences on the success of education in the nation. The term of character is defined as an individual’s set of psychological characteristics that affect person’s ability and inclination to fuction morally. It is comprised of those characteristics that lead a person to do or not to do the right thing. There are numerous character values in education which have been discussed and proposed by experts. One of them is honesty which significantly affects learners’ attitudes and behavior to do an act properly. Building character of honesty in language learning can be done in many ways. One of them is through scientific writing. Writing is not only about “what” and :how” to write. Further, it deals with academic honesty which requires students to behave in accordance with character values. At this point, the issue of plagiarism should come into attention in order to build students’ characters. This paper aims to discuss how scientific writing promotes character building especially in language learning.