Ramifications Of Cheating In Colleges

Abstract:

Academic cheating is characterized as representing someone else's work as your own. It can take numerous structures, including sharing another's work, buying a research project or test inquiries ahead of time, paying another to take the necessary steps for you. Statistics demonstrate that cheating among high school students has risen dramatically during the previous 50 years. In the past it was the struggling student who was more likely to cheat just to get by. Today it is also the above-average college bound students who are cheating. Cheating no more conveys the disgrace that it used to. Cheating no longer carries the stigma that it used to. Less social disapproval coupled with increased competition for admission into universities

Some administrators use sophisticated computer search engines to find internet plagiarists. However, many other colleges are using honor codes to combat cheating. An affective honor clearly describes the boundaries of legitimate and illegitimate work. In addition, it sets the penalties for breaking it. While honor codes have existed on many campuses for a long time, they are now acquiring “teeth” as the institutions strive to enforce them. Educators say that the simple act of students signing the honor code makes a difference. “It’s a psychological effect; if people expect you to be honorable, you are more likely to respond with honorable behavior”, says Nannerl O. Keohane, the president of Duke University in North Carolina. “We have to build a culture where people are genuinely offended by

These are compounded each time the media refer to copyright infringement cases as “plagiarism,” and it is true that the two have several features in common. Copyright infringement occurs when someone takes work that is subject to copyright law and deprives its lawful owner of (actual or potential) benefits by distributing it. Copyright law was enacted to protect the legal rights of copyright holders to benefit financially from their work. As in the case of fraud, while there are significant overlaps between plagiarism and copyright infringement, there are clear distinctions between the two that differentiate them