Today’s world is filled with people that are willing to do anything to get ahead in their careers or in their lives. Even in schools there are many different ways of cheating and getting better grades so that you look better to colleges. The actions of the students and professional work force people who make the choice to take the easy way of doing a task are normally making an ethical choice when they do so. Many times this ethical choice is not made in the favor of the way that is morally and socially accepted. Many schools and jobs have rules and regulations with sometimes very strict punishments if the moral/ethical rules are broken. In schools it takes the form of plagiarism and cheating on tests. Plagiarism is the act of …show more content…
If they go onto college they are again faced with academic ethics, only this time they are on the honor system and if they are found to have violated the code of ethics they are consequences for those actions. At Kaplan University if someone is caught cheating on a paper by plagiarizing someone else’s work and trying to pass it off as their own they are subject to a three tier discipline plan. Directly from the Kaplan University In essence, plagiarism is the theft of someone else’s ideas and work. Whether a student copies verbatim or simply rephrases the ideas of another without properly acknowledging the source, it is still plagiarism. In the preparation of work submitted to meet course requirements, whether a draft or a final version of a paper or project, students must take great care to distinguish their own ideas and language from information derived from other sources. Sources include published primary and secondary materials, electronic media, and information and opinions gathered directly from other people” (Kaplan University, n.d). Kaplan has punishments set up in a three strike system for those that make the choice to violate the plagiarism policy. On the first offense the student is failed on the assignment that the plagiarism happened in, the second offense fails the student in the class they are in that they wrote the report for, and finally the third and final level is being
Students caught cheating or plagiarizing should be expelled from college because they are dishonest, thieves, and will end up becoming poor professionals.
Plagiarism is a form of cheating, and a serious violation of the honor code and academic honesty in educational institutions. According to dictionary.com, plagiarism is: a piece of writing or other work reflecting such unauthorized use or imitation [1]. In simplified terms, plagiarism is taking and using some else’s work without giving credit to the righteous owner, for using their information. This work includes but is not limited to text, graphs, pictures, statistics, or other types of information that is not considered “common knowledge.” It is also considered as stealing, thus it is not tolerated anywhere in the world, and penalties are strictly
Cheating used to be considered an unmentionable sin. However, in this day and age, it has become more common and somewhat of a daily occurrence. Cheating is more widespread today than in the past. According to the article titled Education: The New Morality, cheating has not been an issue of values, but simply one of practicality. This shows that many view cheating as a mere occurrence and something that can often be skipped over. The reason cheating has become such a pervasive movement is because many students tend to rationalize their cheating behavior. A common rationalization that many students use is, " That 's the only way I 'll get anywhere in life." Many students also tend to incorporate reasons, such as parental pressures,
Chace askes how does cheating become accepted? Part of the answer is the type of wrong it is. “When one compares it to a violation of copyright which is punishable in a court of law, cheating in college is only morally and ethically wrong.” (Chace, W.M., 25) Even Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. doctoral thesis at Boston University was full of words from other authors and copied down section upon section in great abundance. (Chace, W.M., 25)
Cheating for many is simply a way of life. For others it is a sin in which they would never think to commit. For students in todays world they are stuck in the middle. Many students see cheating as the only way of passing a class. Where other students see as it as a last resort. No matter what side students are on, cheating is wrong, but even though it is wrong and extremely risky millions of students around the nation do it on a daily basis just to get by. Cheating is exactly what Mark Clayton talks about in the article tittle, “ A Whole Lot of Cheatin Going On.” The word that is most often associated with cheating is plagiarism. A word that makes students like myself cringe at the thought. The reason being if caught in this act of despair it can simply ruin your life, your academic life that is. Throughout the article Mark Clayton makes many good points about cheating, but because of his lack of opinions it takes a little more reading between the lines to find out his position on the touchy subject.
A poll conducted by a website, CollegeHumor, revealed that 60 percent of college students had admitted to cheating on tests and assignments. Due to its popularity, society has began to accept cheating as an average tool used by students to succeed. Accepting the issue of cheating has not only decreased society’s standards, but also has led them to become less ethical. Thus, as a result of the decrease in standards, academic cheating has become a reaccuring problem that is now being accepted by society.
Students may accidentally cheat without knowing due to lack of teaching during high school or may purposely commit the crime because they believe they can outsmart their professors. The plagiarists who believe they outplayed their professors because they think the instructors will not see their cheating due to their enormous load of papers and a busy schedule, however, the professors check every paper carefully no matter the workload. In addition to, the professors will always check Google, and many plagiarists tend to forget that the instructor has access to the web address to double check to see if the student stole information. Students who actively plagiarize, remain lazy and seem careless about their future. They have no worries about what copying can lead to because they want to pass, not to learn. Laziness shows the sign of the leading cause for cheating due to students wishing to pay ghostwriters or who copy and paste work from a website rather than paraphrasing. Genuinely confused students who do not understand the concept of plagiarism that well make do with exceptions due to their mistakes although, students who plagiarize have no excuse of their slothfulness because they know the result of
The first idea to understand about cheating is the many forms of how they are carried out. As technology has grown and evolved to what it is today, it has opened many more ways of cheating to occur and causes the temptation to be much easier to pursue. But first, there is the most basic form of cheating that we all know and it is by simply looking off another student’s paper. Whether it would be for homework or a test, it is more commonly used to copy for a test. Next, students may get together and have one person to one half of the homework while the other does the other half, then they both exchange papers and copy each others answers. Through the wonderful world of technology, cheating and plagiarizing is very easy to encounter, even without us realizing it. Students use Internet sources to look up answers for school work and use those answers as their own. What they fail to do is properly source their information. When this happens, they do not give credit to the information source, and it could cost the student a zero for the schoolwork, in the class, or worse they get
There has been multiple instances of students resorting to cheating as method to do well. One study had about sixty percent of students admit to cheating on a test this showing an obvious problem. Cheating is not restricted to just lazy students that don’t want to work, but is also used by students that can’t keep up with the material or students that determine that the results on the test are more important than what they know. Test like the SAT and ACT are both one of the most strict test against cheating yet the importance placed on them convinces many student to cheat despite this. These standardized test pressure student every year to cheat as for some it could decide their future convincing them that the reward outweighs the
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”-Mark Twain. As the knowledge and intelligence of mankind's growth, technology becomes very convenient among the society. Where education is no longer unique and special in the society that only wealthy family uses, but it becomes a very mundane to the world where everyone can go to school; and this brings academic integrity into the world. Academic integrity is the truest way of being successful, especially in our own future investment. But instead of our honesty, work and effort we put in, cheating and plagiarism leads most of us into bigger consequences and danger we face throughout our journey; especially when these lies lead us into building bad habits we don’t realize it and letting to grow stronger and deeper.
Cheating in school is, while frowned upon, very common; especially in high school age students who have a lot riding on them to succeed. In a quote from Mari Pearlman’s LA Times article, “Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society” she explains that teachers get upset with parents who proudly cheat on “income taxes, fooling a boss or supervisor, taking supplies from a workplace to use at home” but the same parents want teachers to discipline students who cheat. Students become confused as to what kind of cheating is right and wrong because their parents gloat about cheating in adulthood.
Academic cheating, achieved threw supposition of certain grades, job opportunities and extreme goals have lead to a high percentage of 75% test takers, including graduate students and high schools students that have agreed amongst this crime which surprisingly has being evolving as technology and higher requirements in society grows. The result of heavy workloads, Intense GPAs and risky temptations has resulted in an increase, 20% during the 1940s vs. 80% during the 2000s, which has shocked both many others and me. Such inclined numbers have led to increases in academic dishonesty that led to the enforcement of stricter, unavoidable routes.
Many questions as to why students decide to preform acts of unethical behaviors have been posed. The most common reasons students resort to the unethical behaviors mentioned above, are because of objective parameters of academic life, such as; difficulty of the course, or not enough time to prepare. While on the other hand, the least common reasons are related to subjective factors, such as, the teacher’s leniency or the importance of scoring a good grade. (Iorga & Romedeac, 2013)
Imagine waking up one day and then the police come to door and you are arrested. You would be confused and wondering what you did wrong. Then you remember what you did, you paid someone to take your SAT. You would never imagine that cheating would get you into this, you would think it was something that happened and nobody ever found out. Well this is exactly what happened to seven students from New York attending Long Island Great Neck North High School. They were arrested for paying Sam Eshaghoff , an alumni, between $1,500 and $2,500 to take the SAT for them. This straightaway is an extreme example of a cheating and the consequences that are not foreseen by everyone. Cheating is something that you have always heard about and maybe have done it yourself once in a while, but have you really thought about why you are doing it. It is not just because you forgot to study or do not feel prepared, the real reasons why you are cheating is because kids nowadays feel pressured at home to do their best because if they don’t they will let their family down and sometimes it is simply because they feel a natural desire to excel (Dabney). Cheating is happening in high school and even middle schoolers are catching up to the “trend”. The causes of college cheating can be traced back to students’ high school experiences (College Cheating). Students feel more pressured to succeed and due to that, they see that cutting corners are nothing serious (Rivera). Then there is also a big
and had to retake the course in another semester. Another case involving a student who denied plagiarism resulted in the student’s expulsion from the school. The question is how do universities and instructors decide what consequences will be applied to which students? Many schools use the “A-B-C-D-E model (Kiehl, 2006, p. 201), the intent of which is to make the concepts of decision-making models practical, rather than abstract” (Kiehl, 2006, p. 200).“The letters A-B-C-D-E serve as a mnemonic in which A = assessment, B = benefit, C = consequences and consultation, D = duty, and E = education” (Kiehl, 2006, p. 201). Using this model makes it easier ethically to hand down a punishment to a student (Kiehl, 2006, p. 200). In the academic learning environment today, students are surrounded with ideas and thoughts of others. These works can be accessed through written material, electronically, heard in lectures and sermons, or even in class discussions. Without giving proper credit to the author of the original work plagiarism is the outcome (Lowe, 2003). Plagiarism can be intentional or unintentional. In an academic environment students are faced withmany ways to practice intentional plagiarism such as downloading a paper from the internet, paraphrasing without using the proper citations, copying papers from students who may have already completed a course and various other ways. Students