To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery
Strayer University
Eng 115
October 26, 2015

It has been profound to 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 found out that many students do cheat on tests, but once the exam is taken and the semester is over, they don’t know anything about their class. Maybe you would like to be like everyone else and get good grades, and pass but in the long run, will it be worth it? There are