Academic Dishonesty Scenario Essay

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Scenario 5:
Tony, Abdul, and Shin are studying together for Science. They are all pretty good students and usually get A’s or B’s on their work. They complete the homework assignment together, having a good discussion and sharing lots of ideas. They each record the answers to the homework questions and write the exact same thing. Each person turns in their own copy of the assignment.

Follow up questions:
Do you think this is Academic Dishonesty?
In this case, it is half and half. This is not academic dishonesty because they studied together which isn’t wrong and they didn’t cheat or plagiarize others work. Furthermore, how it is academic dishonesty because writing the exact same work is wrong and on top of that handing it in especially on an assignment.

What is the issue in your scenario?
The issue in our scenario is that Tony, Abdul, and Shin studied together which is not wrong but they wrote the same thing as one another and handed it …show more content…

Also,the teacher should mark everyone fairly because they did something wrong which could lead the students to a bad learning environment. The student will think that they can get away with plagiarizing all the time and won’t get caught. This will result in them thinking to do this consistently. Using plagiarism may cause you succeed once or maybe all the time, but you know it’s wrong and you will be caught. Maybe not by a teacher or anyone else but the one person that will come after you is yourself. You are going to be in the work force with a reputation that is poor, which will affect the job you receive. Therefore, we believe that the two students should be given a warning about what they did wrong and be told not to do it next time. Also, the teacher should understand her reputation is not going to be affected if she tells them what they did wrong but it will help her students to learn not to do it

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