Analysis of Academic Dishonesty

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Abstract

The easier, softer way is not the road less traveled. In this paper, I plan to use myself as a case study for a look inside the mind of a cheater. I will start out with a definition of academic dishonesty given by our school and hope to go through some valid excuses used by people who cheat. I will also look at how further complications and confusion arises by students and teachers perception of themselves and their role in the problem. I will address the changing culture and how it can be a useful smokescreen that tries to make cheating a social issue as well as a moral one. I will use morality to discredit a view that certain forms of dishonesty are more acceptable than others forms. I hope to end my research by showing that this is a serious problem for all us, if only by the effect cheating can have on the economy. This should give cause for alarm. Changes must be made in order to shift the personality of education from impersonal to personal, from social and mental only, to spiritual and moral also.

Academic Dishonesty

I must start this paper by stating the reason that I chose to do my paper on this topic is because I have cheated in the past. I do not like the fact that I feel I have had to cheat in order to get by. I hope that by doing some research into the topic and stating some changes that I have made I can better explain the reasoning of someone who is dishonest. In the University of Louisville's student handbook, the term "academic dishonesty" means obtaining or seeking to obtain an unfair academic advantage for oneself or for any other student; it includes lying, cheating, stealing, or engaging in otherwise dishonest conduct in the course of or related to a...

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