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Candace Hill
Professor Jacobs
Compostion and Rhetoric October 17, 2014

Academic Cheating: Many essays have been written about the consequences of cheating, whether college level o at high school. People who cheat on tests, essays, o assignments find themselves facing repercussions such as failure, suspension, expulsion, and lack of credibility. If a person cheats once, they most likely will do it again in the future. What may be the case of academic cheating? Factors such as stress, procrastination, and lack of study skills ay led to cheating. When It comes to cheating in school, the phrase “everyone’s doing it” is no far from the truth (Cisek, 1999; Jensen, Arnett, Feldman, and Cauffman, 2002). Although cheating behavior in educational settings is not new, research shows a rise over the past 30 years (McCabe, 2001;Schab, 1991). In McCab and colleagues, national study of high school students, 74% of the students reported cheating on test in the past year, and 59% reported some form of plagiarism (McCab and Katz, 2009.pp 378-399). Many institutions of higher education have adopted academic honesty policies, instituted academic integrity completion courses. Students think they don’t have to cite information they find on the interne because it I public knowledge. (Rimer 2003). Many students overlook what they actually produce and what they cut and paste due to it being so easy to do on the internet. (Howard and Davies, 2009). A study of academic dishonesty was performed by a group of 48 students’ enrolled in online communication curses in fall, 2010. This study recommends ten
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Instructional strategies to promote integrity and help students not to cheat or internet plagiarism. In general studies were consistent with those published in search. Many students still believe its ok to cheat. It’s the teacheers job to do what they can to