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A 5 page paper which examines academic honesty and plagiarism in higher education. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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it has become easier and easier to ultimately "cheat" and engage in acts of plagiarism without even knowing it. The following paper examines academic honesty and the effects of plagiarism
in higher education. Academic Honesty and Plagiarism Plagiarism is just one form of academic dishonesty. "Simply put, plagiarism is fraud: a plagiarist passes off anothers work as his
or her own, whether that work takes the form of anothers words, ideas, evidence, proof, or structure of argument" (Snively, 2008). This can be done by directly using the exact
words of another and not citing them as the source. It can involve paraphrasing information and also not giving proper citation for the idea (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). In
essence, if a student uses an idea that is someone elses, some information that the student did not previously know, then they must cite the author of the idea. Plagiarism
can be using another persons work as ones own, including paying someone to write a paper and then turning that particular paper in as their own. Interestingly enough, one can
even perform plagiarism involving ones own work by submitting portions or a whole paper previously done. In relationship to the last form
of plagiarism noted many students may feel that if a research topic is the same in two classes they can simply change the wording and then turn in the papers
to each class. Snively (2008) illustrates why this is wrong, and why it is dishonest, in the following: "[I]n writing and turning in the same paper (even slightly edited) to
two professors, you are misrepresenting yourself: you have done one piece of work in place of two pieces of work. And you have assumed that your professors are too preoccupied
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