Plagiarism Rajvir Kaur PHL 1253 Ethical Leadership & Critical Decision Making Terry Peddlesden February 22, 2017 Contents • Introduction • Reasons why student plagiarize? • Deontological Approach • Consequentialist Approach • Conclusion …show more content…
There are various factors due to which students plagiarize. Firstly, many students have fair of bad grades, so they think about the way to get good grades due to this pressure sometimes instead of hard work pupil prefer cheating as they find it more efficient way to enhance their marks. Generally, in these cases, families are responsible for their children behavior because they compel their students to get good marks without being knowing the problems of children which they face in their studies, so learners do anything to increase their grades. Secondly, many students have weak writing skills, so they ponder that if they copy from their friend, then it will prove beneficial for them as they are more confident for others work and neglect their intelligence. People do not tend to choose hard work they just need better result without wasting their time in studies. However, students claim that they already have a lot of workloads related to studies, so it is hard for them to do each assignment properly, so they plagiarize to decrease their …show more content…
According to the Deontological theory which is based upon the rights, duties, promise-keeping, honesty, plagiarism destroys the society as it is not right to copy someone’s work even if another person allows you to do so because it will decrease your confidence and makes you lazy. It also shows disrespect toward teacher because teacher gives work to judge pupil’s intelligence as their motive is to educate student properly but students disobey the rules and copy their friend’s work which makes the teacher feel bad. It is awful thing to take credit for someone’s work as sometimes learners steal their friend’s assignment and write their name on it which is another form of plagiarism. As it is said that Habit becomes second nature so when people plagiarize something then in future they get addicted to this, and they start cheating on every test, assignment, paper which makes their future