Visual Argument For Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty visual argument Draft.

A greek tragedian named Sophocles once said, “i would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating” (Dinovelli). Unfortunately today, college students practice the opposite of this philosophy by engaging in academic dishonesty, a misconduct that is plaguing our college education systems. This type of misconduct still occurs today despite at times there being strict measures taken to avoid or prevent it. As a society that preaches success is only obtained through education, it is crucial for for us to try and find ways to at least solve this issue if possibly not eradicating it as there are real, lasting and severe consequences to be faced if there are no solutions. My visual

Hence, it is meant to urge specifically college students at Tidewater Community College to participate in any fruitful efforts, that can contribute in halting it and to bring awareness to those that are unfamiliar with it. The visual is about education and therefore it was taken at an academic institution in Portsmouth, Virginia. It displays the hand of a student with written answers for the test being taken. The picture is in color but the text is in black and white for the purpose of clarity to the audience. My reason for using just the hand, instead of fully showing students in a classroom cheating, was to highlight just how unremorseful and non emotional the process of cheating is, in that there are no thoughts taken into account before it occurs, as students will engage in it without any feelings of guilt. Another reason was to array how easy it is participate in it. The subjects are positioned in such a manner so as to give priority to the problem. The simplicity of the image alludes that the audience already has prior knowledge about cheating hence the directness to the issue, it is clear and it does not have an element of mystery to it, so as not to make the audience wander off the topic.The implied message by the subject is that students do engage in cheating. Students are primarily responsible for academic dishonesty and so the text ‘cheating threatens academic integrity’ is meant to urge college students to reject cheating, as the one who has the power to cheat can also has the responsibility of choosing not to do so. The image is realistic and serves to highlight the undermining of academic integrity. People might often think of cheating as some very onerous process, thus the writing on hand serves to dispel this as one of the simplest ways that one can employ to participate in this type of academic misconduct.The black color is used to