American River College Student Standard Of Conduct Guide On Disciplinary Consequences

Plagiarism Policy

It is important to discover who we are and what we want to achieve in this life. The discovery of you includes building a plan with steps that one follows. It is important to remember that exploring yourself can create ideas, build up imagination, and make us better people. If people don’t come up with their own ideas in life they get lost in the world filled with ideas and life plans that were created by someone else. Being a student gives a person an opportunity to learn and grow and become whoever they strive to be, not that one could not achieve it while not being a student, however when we set time aside specifically for school we have a better chance of achievement, and also as we are a student we learn the importance

Students who really care about their future careers would think twice before committing plagiarism. If students are capable of stealing and committing fraud in academic education it means they would commit similar action wherever they go. Cheating can be compared as a bad stain that impossible to remove it same thing with academic dishonesty which would take years to remove it from the records. Lenora C. Thompson and Portia G. Williams said “it’s a risk ending academic careers before the careers even get started”. I believe the policy of plagiarism should not be revised and be kept equal to all the students. However, it should be taught equally upon all students no matter what nationality and culture. International students should not be excluded because of different overseas education system, nor the policies and assumption be changed but it’s the students responsibility to follow the rules of academic integrity of conduct. But academicals should be held accountable to provide the proper education for the needs of students, so it will help them learn strategies instead of surface-touching. As authors Lenora C. Thompson and Portia G. Williams in their article research came to conclusion even after practicing assignments on plagiarism “students had not fully understood plagiarism or how not

This course would greatly help students to learn about plagiarism and not just go over the plagiarism handbook list of rules and punishments actions superficially in few minutes in class. It would provide deeper level of understanding of all the aspects of plagiarism and learn the steps how to avoid it in their work, and use attribution techniques in the proper way. Rebecca Moore Howard suggests the important key of “patchwriting” in order to gain the correct skills is to practice recount summary of original source in writing with a closed text from the memory using your own words and