Sounding the Truth in Academic Writing

Abstract

The article purposes to describe some problems of ethical issues of writing for academic paper as part of academic responsibility. The dissemination of academicswriting do through international journals. There are some several reasons, such as enhancing personal and university level, widening networking, implementing a better academic atmosphere, and academic work. However, Indonesia academics are still have some problems in academic work especially writing international journal, such as lack of ability in writing and low research. This case study was conducted qualitatively in 2017 with data collection method through in-depth interviews, observation, and document studies. The result shows that hence, the article discusses the unethical practice in academic writing as misconduct, fabrication, falsification and plagiarism or handling the prevention. In sumthat paper involves two aspect discourses: the unethical of academic writing and how to avoid this worse work., therefore, quality of the journal reflects the quality of the writing.