Jeremy Halladay
INFT 101
6 March 2014
Academic Honesty
Academic honesty has been an ever growing problem within the education community. It starts from grade school and continues on through the rest of the student’s lives as well as the work place. No more than ever before has there been more pressure to perform at a higher level in school and some students will go to extreme lengths to just get a decent grade.
As you well know academic honesty is a big thing when completing assignments and test in college. But honesty comes down to the core of who we are, from are family’s to are work place. It creates an invisible untrustworthy factor between the student and professor. It basically comes down to cheating, which means to use another person’s ideas or answers for your own. It’s also known as intellectual theft. Academic honesty is not a victimless crime, and you may wonder why, but it has many factors. Taking credit for something that isn’t yours or stealing it can actually put you in jail. Students these days have a lot of pressure on them, which causes them to resort to desperate measures. Some other reasons is because they lack the knowledge or skill for the course or they are just plain lazy. One last thing is that they didn’t even know they were cheating at all because they didn’t use proper citation.
One thing I have learned from this article is that, I didn’t know it was as widespread as I initially thought, which really surprised me. The conclusions of the article are extremely accurate when compared to other course material, because you should just be academically honest throughout your educational journey. One bible verse that comes to mind is (Proverbs 10:9) “Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out”.
A couple things that I will apply since reading this article is that I will correctly cite my