Cheating Is A Word?

Academic dishonesty is the use of unauthorized assistance with the intent to deceive an instructor. Academic dishonesty includes behaviors like cheating, plagiarism, and fabrication. Cheating is the use of materials, information or notes that are not authorized by the instructor. Plagiarism is the act of claiming or using someone’s own words or ideas and using them as your own without giving them credit. Fabrication involves falsifying information or data.

Cheating has always been an issue among students. Almost everyone cheats in some fashion in classes. Whether it’s by blatantly copying another student’s answers, or working together on an assignment meant to be done on your own, cheating will remain a staple occurrence in academic life. In Rebekah Nathan’s article, “The Art of College Management: Cheating,” Nathan (2005) delves into students’ various reasons for cheating and even includes cheating as an “aspect[] of student culture,” (p. 27) from the point of view of a student. Nathan defends cheating as a whole by including it as an inevitable part of student culture. Additionally, she claims that everyone cheats, further diving into the idea that cheating is not inherently wrong. As a result of consistently defending cheating, Nathan neglects to provide worthy solutions to the issue as well as ignoring the consequences of cheating.

My first tough term is cheating? How can someone clearly define cheating when the definition varies by the person? Simply, nobody can. However in my point of view, cheating can vary by each relationship. One may agree to an open relationship and almost anything goes whereas another would hate it if I even looked at another lady. Ultimately, cheating to me is if the intentions of my significant other are to form a new relationship with somebody, purposely trying to shake things up. What I mean is I have no problem with my lady and me going to a bar and letting her get free drinks all night by flirting with other guys; emotional manipulation influencing them to buy her a drink or two. Why would I be okay with this? Because I not only have

Cheating is defined in the dictionary as, to deceive by trickery; swindle, however the dictionary fails to tell you if it is right or wrong to cheat. People have many different beliefs when it comes to cheating; some think its fine to do while others completely disapprove. I intend to show the different beliefs, from different perspectives of people, and also intend on proving which beliefs have the strongest and weakest arguments.

Academic dishonesty includes cheating and/or copying words or work (i.e. plagiarism) that is not your own on quizzes, assignments, and discussion posts. Please don’t assume that I can’t catch cheating online there is a program monitoring all the work you do online for my course and it will notify me if you copied and pasted any text from the textbook, web, or another students work. If discussion posts and assignments are too similar to other students’ or to your text this may constitute cheating. If you engage in academic dishonesty, you will receive an ‘F’ on the assignment/quiz/discussion post. If you have a repeat infraction you will receive an ‘F’ for the entire course.

The word “cheat” can be defined as ‘“to act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination” (Google). Although this may be the way in which cheating is known, numerous definitions exist of this sensitive word. They all mean something vastly different from one another, but all get at the same thing: cheating is lying in order to attain one’s deepest desires. Essentially, when we people this word, they think of something that’s very taboo in today’s society. In fact, every time the word “cheat” is employed, the automatic conclusion is made that someone’s feelings end up hurt. 99% of the time, this statement appears to true. The two most well-known scenarios of cheating are cheating in a relationship, and cheating in school events such as tests and sports events/games. The bottom line can be summed up like this: no matter how a certain individual may choose to define the word ‘cheating’, it raises eyebrows, and questions, about the moral values of today’s society and its citizens.

We as students often use the misconception of cheating to take us into a higher level of authority, to succeed in school, or to get into a good college. Fairly enough we know that cheating can be beneficial to us, but there are consequences that come with this unjustifiable process. Is it used for survival for your own good? Cheating has come a long way, and it is been a long way into becoming a habit formed by society. It can be stopped, but it is our decision to make that choice. A recent study shows that more students are cheating- and they are cheating not just to survive, but also to thrive. Another study was shown that technology could be a major contribute in the rising amount of cheating. Using the Internet or cell phone is an advantage

I ran into an article online called “How Online Students Are Cheating” by Jamie Littlefield where she discussed many of the reasons why students are cheating in online classes where many topics were discussed by the author regarding academic dishonesty in online courses. While the discipline I teach will require some collaboration and discussion between students it is also important that they understand the institution’s rules, regulations and consequences of academic dishonesty and how it will impact them personally, professionally and, more importantly, academically.

Whether it’s just a quick glance at another student’s test, or copying all the answers off of someone else’s homework, cheating is always wrong. Cheating is an epidemic that has spread to every high school, and, sadly, several students have been infected. We should never allow students to cheat in school because not only are they not learning the material, they are also lowering their self-worth by thinking that they are not capable of completing the work.

Academic dishonesty is a threat to every student and every institution of higher education. The very act runs contrary to the fundamental values of higher education (Bowers, 1964). Dishonesty compromises the integrity of the individual student as well as the reputation of the institution (Engler, Landau, & Epstein, 2008; Gallant, 2008).

When referring to the concept of cheating, there are many definitions that a person may think of. According to Dictionary.com, there are three ways of viewing the term and thus three corresponding definitions. Nevertheless, the unified theme in the idea of cheating is the use of fraud, deception, and dishonesty (Random House Dictionary). Unfortunately, this is a notion that is continually acknowledged as acceptable. One scenario that is commonly concentrated on is the act of cheating in education.

What is academic misconduct and how it is define? The definitions and type of academic misconduct varies from academic institutions to institutions but the foundations and basis are essentially the same – to outline guiding boundary for students to abide by. For example, the definition of academic misconduct is defined by the University of California, Berkeley Division of Student Affairs as “Academic misconduct is any action or attempted action that may result in creating an unfair academic advantage for oneself or an unfair academic advantage or disadvantage for any other member or members of the academic community. This includes a wide variety of behaviors such as cheating, plagiarism, altering academic documents or transcripts, gaining access to materials before they are intended to be available, and helping a friend to gain an unfair academic advantage.” So with a clear and simple definitions and examples, why do students ranging from high school all the way to graduate school still engaged in some form of academic misconducts or another? “About 20% of college students admitted to cheating and plagiarism in their high school years during the 1940’s. By 1999, 75 to 98 percent of college students admitted to the same academic dishonesty in high school” (Phillips, 2009).

Academic dishonesty is another facet of unethical behaviour. It is an action or attempt that results in creating an unfair academic advantage for oneself or a disadvantage for any other member of academic community. A child uses his or her experiences in society to shape personal ethics. Family has a strong influence on one's values and behaviour,parents establish rules from the start and it becomes the basis for our ethics and morals. A personal ethical commitment is part of what makes students a success. A lack of ethical commitment will always result in acdemic failure. I personally believe that students who are academically dishonest cheat themselves out of an education and harm their fellow students by screwing the grading curve for the class as a whole. Therefore academic ethics are vital and students should commit themselves to maintaining highest personal ethical standards.

No matter what you do in life cheating is cheating, dishonesty of any kind is still dishonesty. In academic dishonesty cheating on a test, plagiarizing an assignment will affect your life forever, especially if you or someone you’re cheating with gets caught. Cheating in any way is wrong. Cheating refers to any form of misrepresenting your work that was done by someone else, buying papers or test that someone else does and your passing them off as yours.

People cheat in many ways because working hard in school or your job and trying your best, doesn’t always mean success. Sometimes your best just isn’t good enough. There will always be people that are better than you and you can either let that drive you to work harder, or you can let that discourage and lead you to making bad decisions to get ahead. In Callahan’s article, he says, “Given the increased competition, it’s not enough to just have good grades