...Curing Plagiarism Academic dishonesty is spreading like an epidemic across colleges and universities. Its symptoms range from copying a friend’s homework to looking at another student’s answers during a test to turning in a term paper that is plagiarized. Plagiarism, which is taking credit for someone else’s words or ideas, in particular has increased at an alarming rate. Schools and colleges seek to understand not only the causes for rampant plagiarism but also ways to treat it more effectively. The remedy lies in cooperation between instructors, administrators, and students: instructors should improve how they teach academic honesty, administrators should revise and publicize policies treating academic misconduct, and students should value ethics over grades. Statistics show a tremendous increase in academic dishonesty across the nation. According to a study conducted by Plagiarism.org 58.3 percent of high school students in 1969 allowed others to copy their work. In 1989, about 97.3 percent allowed their work to be copied by other students. Even more students today are copying homework answers and cheating on tests to maintain high grades. There are many causes of plagiarism. One reason is the pressure on students to achieve, varying from maintaining a high GPA in high school to get into a good college to keeping up grades while in college to hold on to scholarships (Durkin). A second reason is the competitive nature of grading: a student must be not just acceptable but...
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...OF ENGLISH SAMPLE MID-TERM TEST Writing AE2 Task 1: Identify 6 cases of non-academic language in the text below and edit them to make an academic text. In the box below, write the original words/phrases in the left hand column and your editions in the right-hand column. You have an example. (30 pts) CAN MEDICATION CURE OBESITY IN CHILDREN? A Review of the Literature In March 2004, U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona called attention to a health problem in the United States that, until recently, we have overlooked: childhood obesity. Carmona highlighted that the “astounding” 15% child obesity rate constitutes an “epidemic.” Since the early ‘80s, that rate has “doubled in children and tripled in adolescents.” Now more than nine million children are classified as obese. While the traditional response to a medical epidemic is to hunt for a vaccine or a cure-all pill, childhood obesity has proven more elusive. Lacking success of recent initiatives suggests that medication mightn’t be the answer for the escalating problem. In this literature review, I will consider whether the use of medication is a promising approach for solving the childhood obesity problem by responding to the following questions: 1. What are the implications of childhood obesity? 2. Is medication effective at treating childhood obesity? 3. Is medication safe for children? 4. Is medication the best solution? Understanding the limitations of medical treatments for...
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...stop our students from cheating at the Universities in Florida. The University of Florida made test-taking just that, test-taking, not a social hour. Mr. Taylor Ellis, is an assistant dean that monitors the testing center, at the University of Central Florida, has said “It will never stop completely, but I will find out about it” if they try to cheat. (Ellis, 2010, p.1). Many of the students try to use different types of items to cheat, like a phone, camera, paper, pens, clothing, earpieces some even try to use tattoo’s. As you have also heard many students will write a paper and have the paper rewritten over the internet by someone else. This is just one way they cheat on writing assignments. Daines (2010, p2) stated that he was especially disturbed by an epidemic of students’ copying homework. One of the services that are used to deter students from cheating is the Turnitin algorithm. "It's typically 30% of all the papers submitted have significant levels of plagiarism," said John Barrie, founder of Turnitin.com. (Barrie, April 29). Many of our colleges and universities use Turnitin.com to check if students have plagiarized their work. A couple of schools used this resource for future students entering the schools as well, to detect any plagiarism on their application. Do you believe that the software can be tricky, because many students feel it can be done? Over 61% have admitted to cheating in college and 36% have admitted to cheating in high school. I have...
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...Causes of Academic Misconduct Academic misconduct is any kind of cheating that goes on in association with official academic activity. Academic dishonesty is epidemic in all levels of education. The causes of misconduct vary. “Researchers have studied the connection of cheating to personal characteristics, demographics, contextual factors, methods of deterring misconduct, and even stages of moral development” (American University, 2014). Some scholars say that students sense an uncontrollable urge to cheat and most cheaters irrationally choose academic misconduct. But no matter what the analytical or circumstantial data is on a student, they must overcome their conscience before they can cheat. This depends on two things; what the student uses as justification for the cheating and how strongly they feel regarding academic misconduct. The most common cause for academic misconduct is bad and irregular study habits. Some students do not realize that they should broaden their study habits in order to coincide with the more advanced courses. In addition, if the student does not know how to study effectively there is a greater chance they will engage in academic misconduct. Anxiety may cause a student to cheat to try and get a better grade. There many different reasons why a student commits academic dishonesty, however educating students on different ways to study in addition to what exactly academic dishonesty is can be very beneficial to keep students away from choosing academic...
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...1. At our school site, cheating and academic integrity violations have become a real problem. Currently, it is unclear what exactly has led to such an epidemic, however, we come together today at this town hall meeting in order to discuss and debate the topic, so that we may further understand and clarify what leads to such violations. Further, I hope that these discussions may lead to realizations as to what must be done in order to prevent further instances of cheating and academic dishonesty. Finally, I would hope that each stakeholder group will better understand one another and gain knowledge of academic integrity, its definitions and regulations. Questions for each of the stakeholder groups: Graduate Schools Group: 1. Would knowledge of a student violating their college’s academic integrity regulations affect their chances of attending a (your) graduate school? 2. If so, is there any action that a student can take in order to change your view of them or your decision concerning their acceptance? Student Group: 1. What do you feel the professors, faculty and university can do to better and further deter students from cheating? 2. What do you, as students, believe would be a fair punishment for academic integrity violations? Parent Group: 1. Parents, do you feel that you were properly informed about the expectations concerning and the consequences surrounding a student violating the academic integrity rules? 2. What do you believe you...
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...Dishonesty in the Digital Age As the way students do research evolves, so does the way that they plagiarize. As technology improves the way students plagiarize improves making it seem like it is not ethically wrong. There are many factors contributing to why students think cheating is morally correct as well as there are many factors that can be done or taught to help students realize why it is ethically wrong to plagiarize. Many students grow to have the mindset that keeping good grades as well as being involved in many school activities are some of the few actions that are going to help them become academically successful in the future. This adds pressure to the social expectations of a student having to balance a healthy social and academic...
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...Carlos Andrés Muñiz Mr. Moore AP English Language and Composition 12 August 15 Cheating in the Academic Setting It seems like it was too long ago when kids actually realized the importance of learning. Although now a days it seems like every student isn’t interested in learning, he or she is interested in the reward that comes along with it. Being in the top ten percent of your class, being valedictorian, or getting accepted into the college of your dreams, that’s what passes off as important in school now. Sure, it kind of is, but if you don’t learn anything, then you’re cheating yourself and just wasting your time. The point of going to school isn’t to get good grades, or be the most popular kid, or be even be the smartest…we all go to school for nothing more than to learn. You can walk around just about any school, in any state, at just about any time of the day, and I’m willing to put money on the line that you will see a group of students sitting around a bench sharing last night’s homework. Students are so accustomed to cheating; they think it’s 100 percent normal. This bothers me so much because they’ve put so much effort into learning the best way to cheat over the years that you can’t help but smile and think “, If you would put half the effort you put into learning how to cheat, you might have honestly passed Mr. Moore’s English class.” Yet people don’t realize how bad it seriously is. In our present day society, kids are overwhelmed with the idea that...
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...In his book, The Truth About Cheating: Why Men Stray and What You Can Do To Prevent It, M. Gary Neuman discusses the issue of infidelity through the mind of married men. Newman surveyed over 25,000 married men, selecting 200 for his final analysis. Half of the respondents were faithful in the marriage, the other half were not. Newman examines why men cheat and how they typically carry it out. He also lays out the psychological factors behind the decision to commit adultery. Neuman’s study looks at five main points married men cite as reasons for cheating—the number one reason being not feeling appreciated. As a marriage counselor for over twenty years, Neuman did this exhaustive study because he wanted to get to the bottom of the cheating...
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...Mari Pearlman in the LA Times, “Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society” explains that parents are showing kids that it is acceptable to cheat yet still ask the teachers to tell their students that it is not. Pearlman is generally speaking about the parents who cheat on income taxes or even taking supplies from their workplace and using them at home. This essay will cover examples on how parents cheat and what to do to prevent them from them thinking it is acceptable to cheat. Cheating has always been a problem since education started but the epidemic has just gotten worse over the years especially with technology advancing. Students do not even need their textbooks anymore they can simply look for it online. With the touch of a few buttons children can simply type in some words and find all the answers to their homework and instead of actually learning the material they copy it. Technology is not the only thing to blame it is also the parents or any mentor a child looks up to that can affect the way they learn....
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...dishonesty as defined by Hard, Conway and Moran as well as describe the importance of academic honesty. The long term negative effects of academic dishonesty will be discussed as well as the various methods of deterrence. Building and acquiring academic integrity can encourage a student to become more confident with his or her academic assignments as well as improving him or herself academically. Academic Dishonesty Academic dishonesty is a form of cheating whether it is deliberately or inadvertently. Academic honesty is a major issue and the importance of this topic has been at the top of discussion between teachers and students at every level of education, especially within adult students with both face-to-face and online courses in the modern era. Academic dishonesty is described by Hard, Conway, and Moran (2006) below: providing or receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for academic evaluation, including papers, projects and examinations (cheating); and presenting, as one’s own, the ideas of words of another person or persons for academic evaluation without proper acknowledgement (plagiarism) (p. 1059) (Spaulding, 2009) In addition, Academic dishonesty can include falsification or fabrication of data, information, or citations, deception by impersonating a student with the intent of providing an advantage for that student, corruption of instructors or testing officials, and sabotage of educational...
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...Running head: Ethics and the College Student 1 The Ethics and College Student Title Page: BY MAURICE M. OWENS ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to see the college students’ view of ethics. There was enough evidence to say that college students’ perceive ethics instruction, and those who teach it, to be relevant and beneficial in shaping their own ethical behaviors. Students’ attitudes towards cheating is measured by their perception of cheating in high school, college, and non-major classes. The use of technology has an impact on college ethics since it is easier to cheat in online/hybrid classes and when some kind of technology is used in a course. College students believe that they are living in an ethical campus environment, where their faculty members are mostly ethical in nature and that it is never to late to learn about ethics in college. The Ethics and College Student Title Page: 2 Ethics is truly and important asset within today’s society, there are so many ways you can define ethics. I will say that to me ethics is about your upbringing, starting from the day you were born. Ethics will keep together and organization or it will dismantle and organization, you must enforce structure and guidelines. There are three strong principles when we talk about students and ethics. I call this (R, A, O) Responsibility, Accountability and Ownership. Students must be Responsible and withhold the obligations and the integrity of the school in which...
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...definition of cheating in the academic realm. With the availability of smart phones, portable laptop computers and online courses, students have found a way to use these tools to their advantage. As we will discuss in this paper something as simple as a text message or photo message can allow the student the ability to easily complete an exam or assignment without putting in the necessary time to correctly learn the material. The reason cheating with technology has grown is because the actual meaning of cheating has changed in the eyes of new students. The actual definition is a violation of intellectual property but, if the act is not seen by others as wrong, then it can be justified. We intend on showing the means used by cheaters to advance themselves to achieve an “education” and the measures taken by learning institutions to curb this epidemic. There are many different things which seemingly contribute towards the current increasing problem of cheating at the University level. While the concept of cheating has been around for years, recent studies and indications show that cheating do too many factors including larger college classes and technological advances such as the widespread use of the internet and mobile computing devices, make cheating both easier and much more widespread throughout college campuses nationwide. Technology devices like picture phones, mobile devices with texting and internet capabilities heavily contribute towards the widespread problem of cheating at the...
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...RUNNING HEAD: Obesity in the USA versus Asian Countries 1 Obesity in the USA versus Asian Countries Tina Bonne Indiana Wesleyan University MBA0289 Statistics for Managers October 6, 2014 MS Fanyu Zeng, Instructor I have read and understand the plagiarism policy as outlined in the syllabus and the sections in the Student Bulletin relating to the IWU Honesty/Cheating Policy. By affixing this statement to the title page of my paper, I certify that I have not cheated or plagiarized in the process of completing this assignment. If it is found that cheating and/or plagiarism did take place in the writing of this paper, I understand the possible consequences of the act/s, which could include expulsion from Indiana Wesleyan University. Obesity in the USA versus Asian Countries 2 Introduction Obesity is a health condition that is characterized by an individual having too much body fat. The tool that measures body fat is called the Body Mass Index or BMI. The chart in Appendix A, outlines what is considered a normal BMI versus obesity BMI for adults age 20 and Older and children ages 2-19 years. Obesity leads to other chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart conditions. Obesity has become a focus in the healthcare industry worldwide. However, it appears to be more prevalent in the United States...
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...College Composition Project 2 – Stakeholder Proposal In 2012, a cheating scandal that involves approximately 125 Harvard students has provoked serious concerns about higher education system, not only within the U.S borderlines but also on a worldwide scale. The story became a hot dispute, being featured in various front page articles. It may come out as a surprise to many that the school was the most vulnerable to these mass-media attacks, rather than the students. For quite a period following the incident, when the name Harvard was mentioned, people immediately associated it with unethical behaviors instead of its well-established academic background. Furthermore, the problem did not simply ruin the reputation of a single university: the entire system was exposed under suspicions. Public trust in the real quality of education has dropped drastically ever since the Harvard scandal, prior to which was another in Atlanta public schools where high-stakes test results were counterfeited. To eradicate the epidemic has become a major challenge for the entire system, calling for efforts from all concerning parties: authorities, institutions, teachers, students, even their parents. Nevertheless, taking the widespread impact on the higher education industry into considerations, it is highly recommended that universities and colleges should be the first to take steps in the fight against academic dishonesty. “Cheating” in schools is a relatively broad concept. The phenomenon can take...
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...of the modern world, plagiarism have never been easier than what have been done in the past before. With just a simple left click and clicking the paste icon a student can complete their assignment or their work within minutes instead of using the proper way of researching and writing on their own. The problem of plagiarism have been around the academic world for a long time until it was known as “the problem that won’t go away” (Paldy, 1996), with the current modern technology the problem is getting bigger and bigger among the academician. There is evidence that student cheats in their academic journey and plagiarism in particular, are becoming more common and more widespread, encouraging Alschuler and Blimling (1995) to speak of “epidemic cheating”. This evidence is multi-dimensional, coming from many countries, including the USA (White,1993), the UK (Ashworth & Bannister, 1997), Southern Africa (Weeks, 2001) and Finland (Seppanen, 2002), embracing both undergraduate and postgraduate students and including public and private higher institutions of education, large and small. The word Plagiarism was derived from a Latin world that is “Plagiarius” that means “kidnapper” or “plunderer”, it was also defined as the practice of using the ideas of others and text and claiming that it is theirs hence claiming the original authorship without acknowledging the source. Plagiarism is a very serious problem in the academic world. It is a form of academic theft and “is sometimes a moral...
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