PROLOGUE: Cheating in not accepted in an academic setting. This holds true from kindergarten all the way through college. In college, though, students receive much harsher punishment if they are found cheating.
CONTRARY: Rules about cheating are present in academic communities because the act of cheating does not benefit anyone. Students who show that they can complete their assigned work without having to take from outside sources are the ones that really succeed in school.
EXPOSITION: However, it is those that feel the need to take the works of others and pass it off as their own work that do not succeed. By “cheating the system”, they are really just cheating themselves.
COMPARISON: When a student cheats on a test or paper, it is as if they are showing their professor that they have not ethics and morals, and that they do not respect authority.
INTENTION: Most people who cheat in an academic environment do so because they feel that it will be easier than doing the work, and they believe that there is not possibility of being caught.
DIGRESSION: A person that cheats is not learning the things required to make it through their course of study. There future, in that sense, is not bright, because they will struggle through life trying to cheat off others rather than accomplishing anything by themselves. No one likes a person like this.
REJECTION OF PITY: It seems easy to try to justify the reasons that a person cheated. Maybe the cheater lacked a sound code of ethics because of his or her upbringing, or the stress of college and just life in general FORCED them to want to do well and eventually cheat. These reasons, and the many others that come to mind, are not reason to cheat. Leaders in institutions cannot condone the act of cheating, because in the end, it just leads to and understanding by students that it is ok to cheat.
LEGALITY: If praise is given to those who are honest and do good work, then, along those lines, criticism should be given to those that are not honest and turn to cheating.
JUSTICE: It is therefore just that those who are found cheating be dealt with according to university rules and not overlooked.
ADVANTAGE: Catching and punishing those who cheat will cause other students to realize that cheating rules should not be overlooked.
POSSIBILITY: New technology is making it easier to catch those who cheat. It is the duty of each professor to punish those guilty of this.
2 comments:
We all know one of "those people," the leech of society, sucking their "nutrients" off others in order to survive. And, as far as I know, leeches are pretty happy in their simple existance. It is the way they have always been, and probably, always will be. The leech has no problem being a leech; it only causes discomfort or pain to the person on which it is sucking. I think you made some great points, but nearing the end you said that we needed to "punish" those who cheat. Well, of course, and that's why we have laws in place to make academic dishonesty illegal. However, how can we expect a teacher in a lecture hall of 200 students to be able to catch and punish the cheaters? I don't have an answer for you - I wish I did. I would say make class sizes smaller might help, but there's only so much we can do in this spectrum. A university can only offer so many classes of a certain type, and it's much easier to pack three classes of fifty into one lecture hall. And there we go again, with Americans taking the easy way out. Is there anything we can do?
I agree with the part that cheaters have no ethics or morals. Since those are brought upon by our individuality, there is no leeching of ethics or morals
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