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The Big Effects On Academic Integrity

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“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”(W. Clement Stone). A school is a place where you challenge your mind. It is a place where you gain knowledge. You need to have integrity to be successful in school. Academic integrity helps schools confront problems such as cheating, plagiarism, and encourage honesty. Cheating is often defined as acting dishonest or unfairly to gain an advantage. It has a big effect on academic integrity because it is considered normal now by students. Cheating no longer has a bad look to it. According to a Ney York Time article by Dr. McCabe, cheating is no big deal anymore it is considered normal. Cheating helps you gain an advantage over other people. When you cheat you take away all the pride of and point of what you are doing. When I was in high school my teacher caught my friends cheating off my test , because that was a normal …show more content…

It is a form of cheating that can easily be avoided. Plagiarism is a big problem because most people don’t know about it. According to research done by writing tutors in three different schools, most kids and students don’t quite understand plagiarism (Gabriel). Plagiarism is when you take someone else’s ideas and try to pass it as your own. In school, especially close to the end of marking period, my friends would copy and paste essays off the internet and turn them in just to pass. They would not understand what plagiarism was and the teacher wouldn’t help them understand. When you copy work off the internet and don’t cite or give credit that is plagiarism. If you do research in books and write down what work from the book and don’t give credit that is plagiarism. If you give credit to the original writer or author you can use their work and it is not plagiarism. Be honest about what work is yours and what work isn’t

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