Category: Academic Dishonesty

INTRODUCTION In this chapter researcher present the background of this study, identification of the problem, limitation, research questions, purposes, and significance of this study. Background of the Study Academic dishonesty is someones or group of people tendency to commit dishonest behaviour in the field of education. Academic dishonesty contradicts academic integrity, which is about commitment…

Mr. Walsh senator of Montana committee plagiarism in his master thesis in 2007.an examination of final paper required for Mr. Walshs masters degree from the United States Army War College indicates the senator appropriated at least a quarter of his thesis on American Middle East policy from other authors’ work with no attribution (Martine,2014). Plagiarism…

In the article, College Cheating Thirty Years Later: The Role of Academic Entitlement, the purpose of the study conducted was to help increase the understanding of what the predictors of academic dishonesty are in todays college students. Using four decades worth of date collected through the same questionnaire each time the authors set out to…

Shattered Glass is a movie that follows the work life of Stephen Glass, a journalist at the New Republic. Stephen is an established and successful writer who has written for multiple papers and magazines. The movie starts off with Stephens first mistake, this was giving false evidence to a story he was writing. The hotel…

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines plagiarism as the practice of taking someone else’s ideas or work and pretending that it is your own (Cambridge Online Dictionary, 2022). The word derives from the Latin plagiarius meaning kidnapping. To further clarify plagiarism, Diane Pecorari (2015) attests that there are three main forms: textual, which describes the use…

Academic plagiarism is to sign or present as your own something composed by someone else. It is duplicating other people’s work. Plagiarism or literary theft is a fraudulent imitation of a work, ensured by copyright law, and there is a genuine infringement of the writers moral rights: both the paternity and the integrity of his…

Introduction Thesis statement Ethical Issue: Can readily available answers of a test over the internet in an OBOW exam create dilemma to consider the behavior of taking advantage of the situation an academic misconduct? What kind of steps are to be taken in such a situation? Background Horizon university was founded in 1940 and was…