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A 5 page ethical analysis of a scenario involving academic plagiarism and an honor code which demands that other students report known cases of such plagiarism. In this paper an individual is confronted with the requirement to report an act of plagiarism committed by his friend or face punishment himself. This paper provides an ethical analysis of four options which are available to the student. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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honesty is not only an expectation but for many schools a legal requirement. Honor codes are often in place which require students to abide by ethical principles and, in
many instances, to report cases of academic honesty to the proper authorities. Failure to abide by these honor codes is met with sometimes severe punishment. Punishments have been
dealt for cases in which the student has directly committed an ethical infraction, cases of plagiarism for example, as well as in cases in which a student failed to report
an act committed by another student. Given a scenario in which such an honor code exists, an honor code which not only prohibits plagiarism but also which demands that
known cases of plagiarism be reported by students, a student has no alternative other than to report such acts. An example of a
scenario such as that outlined above might be found in a situation in which a student (we will call him Brad) submits a philosophy paper that was written by someone
else as though he was the author. Bill is in obvious breach of his schools honor code. What about Carl though? Carl is Brads best friend.
Although he is aware that Brad has committed an act of plagiarism he is reluctant to turn him in to the proper authorities because of their friendship and the prevalent
view among students to just look the other way which such problems arise. Carl realizes that if he does not report Bills plagiarism he could face serious consequences.
He could, in fact, even be expelled. Not willing to risk whatever punishment the academic board might decide to deal
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