Academic dishonesty

Wikipedia is one of the most commonly used links when it comes to research. In fact, if you were to google Wikipedia it would be one of the first links to click on on the page. Wikipedia however is not always truthful. Anybody can post on Wikipedia; whether they find new information or they want to change information that is on the page. Wikipedia can’t be resourceful though. Wikipedia can be used for things like finding ages of people, learning information about anybody’s family’s and whatever…

Honor Codes Honor codes in schools teach students honesty and trust. Sometimes these students go against these codes and cheat, steal, or plagiarize from students and adults in order to keep their grades up. Teachers are not enforcing these honor codes strictly, which is causing their students to feel like they can get away with it. Many of the students are not aware honor codes exist at their school because it is not enforced. The honor codes at John Paul II High School must be revised in…

Most people argue and debate on whether our school should have the honor system. I would argue against this system because there are numerous amounts of things associated with the honor system, but i think not having it works better with students. As mentioned in source B, it says “Students were expected to report or confront a fellow student…. Failure to confront or report a student would result in a period of probation” With this honor system it’s saying that if the student doesn’t report the…

“ 60.8% of polled college students admitted to cheating.” Stated oedb.org. School officials can not solve the problem of students cheating. We have technology, we have smart people in the class, and we have online answer keys. Therefore, we will still cheat, no matter what we do. The technology we use includes messages from person to the next person and so on. We can email an answer key to the test coming up the day. For example, we can message our friends the answers to the pop quiz. Quiz…

admitted to cheating during their high school career. Today however between seventy four to ninety eight percent of students in college reported having cheated in high school. A major problem here is that cheating is becoming more and more normalized in academic settings. The primary purpose of school is to provide students with an education, and cheating defeats this purpose almost entirely. It allows students to do well in school while not having to worry about putting in any real effort, and…

negatively frowned upon. Many college institutes will give a student who plagiarized a failing grade on the assignment and not to mention after numerous offenses you may be academically withdrawn from the course or school. According to South University academic policy, plagiarism falls under different criteria from warnings and violations level one through four. The warning would be improper citations not properly citing the information and misrepresenting. In this case of misrepresenting…

Honor Code Essay As a student who has attended Windham High School for three years now, I’ve observed tons of different types of behavior. I feel like an honor code could actually benefit the school if everybody actually cared. As source C said “with a peer-enforced honor code, the liklihood of being caught depends on other students’ tolerance for cheating.” I agree with that statement because I’ve witnessed it myself. I’ve seen people who cheat over other people’s shoulders, people…

People always talk about the importance of being an academic honest student, however only a small amount of students honor this commitment. Therefore, it is significant to emphasize that using ideas without citing in writing is both morally and legally wrong particularly in college, where students are completely responsible for all of their behaviors. Owning others’ ideas is unacceptable because it violates the copyright laws carried out by U.S Supreme Court. The most typical case of the…

There is so much pressure put on students today to get good grades in high school in order to get into a good college. Many students feel the need to cheat. I read an article titled “Too Much Pressure” by Colleen Wenke, published in the 1998 edition of Fresh Ink, a collection of work by Boston College’s first-year writing course students. Wenke feels we are creating a society where many students think that cheating is acceptable because everybody does it. In the article, she writes that…

while others may find that it have some gray area.(Personal Communication). Todd Pettigrew, in his article "What Punishment for Plagiarism?", claims that plagiarism, regardless of its type, is an offense that affects on institutes integrity and all academic institutes must pay more attention by applying proper methods to limit it. (Pettigrew). Recbecca Moore Howard acknowledges that "Patchworking" or "The Potluck paper" are used by some students to improve their writing skills which so it may…