The Importance Of Academic Integrity

Summary of “Academic Integrity” by Arden Miller and Adena D. Young-Jones Which one do you believe cheats more in schools, an online course or a face to face course? Arden Miller and Adena Young-Jones did an article over which one tended to be worse when they found results that were kind of shocking. Of course you expect an online course to cheat more but that was not the case. The results really varied on who the person was, sexuality, age, and other personalities of a person. Arden and Adena, both took surveys of “639 students in both types of classes.

Prevention is always about decreasing plagiarism and about “healthy decision-making, constructive discourse and bystander intervention,”

Tiffany Mikkelson Composition 106 February 14, 2016 Honor system In the essay “Is Academic Integrity in our College Campuses Under Assault.” It asks if by having an honor system it helps keep students from cheating. I can see both sides as to how having one may or may not help. Having an honor system is a good idea as it will help to keep most students honest.

Proctor exams have been implemented at universities all around the world. A proctor is usually an adult who supervises you when you are taking any type of test. According to the University catalog (2015), you are required to take many final exams that require a proctor. They must be least 21 years old, willing to comply with polices and procedures, have an internet connection, and cannot be related to the student. During the exams, the proctor must be present at all times.

Susan Blum's article, "Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism: A Question of Education, Not Ethics" focuses on the reasons behind students' lack of academic integrity. First, Blum believes institutions treat plagiarism as a crime or as an immoral act but neither method is effective. The author thinks students place their personal priorities over honor codes and don't take rules concerning plagiarism seriously (Blum). This means students would rather help their friends cheat than do the right thing. Second, Blum thinks teachers struggle to teach the complex skills needed for citation.

Discussion: I think the hardest plagiarism to avoid is paraphrasing. The reason I think paraphrasing is the hardest is because sometimes its hard to paraphrase someone's else's work without saying just about everything that they stated without getting your point across to your professor. In the academic integrity video I failed the paraphrasing section and I believe I failed that section because I paraphrased the paragraph wrong, by saying wrong I mean I don't think I put my words together well enough stating what the author said properly. By me not paraphrasing it properly I failed , so that let me know that when writing papers this term I need to work on my paraphrasing a lot.

High school and College students’ ethics have elevated over the years and has only increased. Cheating has been a tremendous epidemic for a long period of time and recently skyrocketed because of the creation of smartphones and electronics. Students who are academically dishonest are usually in honors and advanced placement classes because they are challenged and learning a more rigorous curriculum than the other students who are in college prep courses. The reason for their actions is because of academic stress students receive on a daily basis to obtain admirable grades, so they can go to a well-known college.

People wonder what is so wrong with cheating or plagiarism. As long as they get the work done or pass the course. But do these students know the real consequences of cheating and plagiarism. Viewing different people aspect of this problem, this happens everywhere. In Brent Staples article “Cutting and Pasting: A senior thesis by (Insert Name)”, he is trying to get through to individuals so that they could stop doing this and the consequences.

Essay: Plagiarism 1. In text 1, Studies Find more Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception, from September 7th, 2012, the author Richard Pérez-Peña argues through experts that the main reasons for plagiarism are relatively simple: “Cheating has become easier and more widely tolerated, and both schools and parents have failed to give student strong, repetitive messages about what is allowed and what is prohibited” . Text 2, Why Do Students Not Understand Plagiarism, by Jonathan Bailey takes expands the horizon, claiming that “… most students were aware of plagiarism and against it, but did not fully understand the concept...” . He argues that the main reason that high-school and college students do not understand basic rules of citation is that “many students were simply not taught it or held accountable to it” .

Academic integrity refers to the ethical policy that the moral code that helps to ensure that honesty is maintained in academics. These include values such as avoidance of plagiarism and cheating, rigor in research, and maintenance of the academic standards, among others. Academic integrity should play an integral role in determining athletic eligibility. As one pursues athletic excellence, it is important for one to ensure that he or she maintains integrity. In the modern athletic world, many athletes have ruined their names and reputation because of cheating.

In the article, Instructing Students in Academic Integrity this issue is addressed and there has even been a survey conducted on this matter which show that some have issues in differentiating between cheating and not being academically dishonest. There perspectives have changed because cheating has increased dramatically and to some has become a normal thing to do. This can is problematic because what if they become so familiar with being academically honest that they become really at passing another person’s work as their own. This means detecting whether or not someone is being academically dishonest will be even more difficult making it more difficult for schools to find out who is

Academic Integrity According to Professor Ebony Thomas, plagiarism is “every English teacher’s dream turned nightmare.” (Thomas, 2011). Professor Thomas described a fictional scenario in which an unsuspecting student wrote a paper that appeared to be vaguely familiar to the teacher. In due time, the teacher eventually came to the realization that the original work had already been published in a New York Times article.

Student Ethics Cause and Effect In colleges and universities, there remains the fact that plagiarism is rampant on college campuses in the United States. Much research has been done by university professors, in which they came up with options for the prevention of plagiarism in academia. Obviously, professors have numerous options available to them for the prevention of plagiarism in their classrooms and university campuses, yet students can go unnoticed in their cheating behavior. Students, especially college students, should know that cheating is not acceptable behavior.

Students are given a certain deadline for work that is to be handed up which will put pressure on and tempt students to find the easiest access to the relevant information needed. Students may feel after submitting their own work that they do not receive the result they deserve and therefore could tempt them to take data and information from other sources in the hope to receive a higher grade in their next assignment. Whenever a student uses sourced material, this could be either published primary or secondary material, but can also be information got from other people, it must be indicated. It entails a solid set of values and failure to comply with these standard ethics may constitute an act of plagiarism. There are several things that count as plagiarism for instant, quoting exactly from another source, any ideas borrowed from another source, all ideas taken from the internet and any ideas paraphrased from another

Kaitlyn Howard Ms. Rasley ERWC Per 2 30 January 2018 In this paper i will discuss the issue of college students misusing cell phones for cheating intentions. An excessive amount of college students find the convenience of cell phones to very useful for cheating on assignments and tests. From my point of view these students are not interested in the work like they should be.