Thursday, January 24, 2008

Academic Integrity

Thesis: The pressure of success has made many students reach out to cheating, it wouldn't be such a big problem in higher learning institutions if the problem was pressed during earlier years.

Topic Sentence: In order to determine the proper punishment for those who cheat, you must first determine who is cheating and why they are cheating.

Topic Sentence: Some people would say that the reason most students cheat is because they see their peers doing, and how easy it is to do it.

Topic Sentence: Society has accepted that cheating is out there, but there should be punishments for those who do it.

Topic Sentence: There are many different ways a student can be punished for cheating, however the punishement should be the same for all cheaters, no matter how great or small the act is.

Conclusion: Cheating is something that eveyone cannot be responsible for, the individual who did it has to be responsible for his/her own acts. It has become so easy for students to cheat, that some see it as a norm; they don't take the time to see what their actions may be leading them to. However, when schools start to decide on a puishment for an individual who has cheated, it should be the same for everyone else. No punishment should be different for those who have made the same act.

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