Academic Dishonesty is when you use someone else’s work and try to pass it off as your own, without citing that you used someone else’s information. This is also referred to as plagiarism. There are a number of ways plagiarism might be brought about. One is by downloading or copying a paper, taking text from online documents and using their words without citing them, and even receiving help on an assignment when you were instructed to not.
The reason academic dishonesty is wrong is because it does not allow you to learn the information and process it through your understanding thoughts. By taking someone else’s words you not only lose the opportunity to increase your knowledge but you also risk receiving a zero for the assignment. The student handbook also states that a student may receive expulsion from the institution as a whole for academic dishonesty.
This policy to me is simply fair. Plagiarism defeats the purpose of being in college as a whole. You are here to learn and expand your knowledge. This is what all classrooms stress. They push this statement to all the students and put their trust in us in this way. If we want the knowledge our professors know we will do the work. The part I do not agree with on Saint Rose’s academic dishonesty policy is the expulsion part. If a student does plagarize and is caught I believe he should recieve the zero, but expulsion is not necessary. That student is here and has paid his money to. If he chooses not to make choices to increase his education then that is his loss.
Plagiarism may seem like a good idea when faced with the choice of writing a paper or finding a free one, but in the real world plagiarism can lead to law suites and fights when someone’s work is not citied or written over. For example, today, the writer of the hit series Twilight is facing criticism for supposed plagiarizing of her story line which can be seen on www.newser.com.
http://www.newser.com/story/66063/twilight-scribe-accused-of-plagiarism.html
