Academic Culture and Reflective Writing

ACADEMIC CULTURE By Course Name Professor’s Name University City, State Date of Submission Academic Culture Before defining academic culture, it is crucial to understand the general meaning of the term culture. Culture refers to knowledge and characteristics of a given group of people living in the same locality (Brick 2011, p. 1). In simpler terms, culture is the way of life of a group of people; the way they do things. Thus, academic culture simply means the way of life in learning institutions or environments. It entails the attitudes, values, and the behaviors of people in a particular university or learning institution (Brick 2011, p. 2). Different universities have different academic cultures, meaning that lecturers, researchers, and students of one university are likely to behave in a different manner as compared to those of another institution. Several features are commonly found in the academic culture in universities. One of these features is the originality of their own academic work without plagiarism or copying other people’s work. This means that students must avoid copying and pasting other peoples’ ideas or using other people’s ideas without acknowledging them through referencing and citation (Brick 2011, p. 5). The other feature of academic culture is that students must provide logic information with enough evidence. They must remain objective and impartial in their work. In any work they submit, there must be enough facts and supportin...