Category: Academic Dishonesty

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…

Doing honest work in college plays a very important role in a students life and it is what the academic integrity is built upon. The book Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success, by Charles Lipson focuses on Academic honesty and how students can make sure…

Plagiarism is the use of exact words and ideas of other people or another author without giving proper acknowledgement to the owner. It is also defined as the use of another persons works, ideas, theories, strategies, and interpretation without permission from the author or person. This act of dishonesty is a serious offense in school…

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…