Further Research and Proposal
ENG 215
Sarah Ferreira
Professor Laura Howard
October 26, 2014
Further Research and Proposal
For the required paper, I will be covering the topic of students that get caught cheating or plagiarizing while attending a college or university and the consequences that should happen to them when caught. The reasons for choosing this topic are its importance as a current student. As a student, I am required to make sure everything in the paper is properly cited and referenced. The second reason for choosing this topic was for the fact that every semester that I have attended college, I have heard stories about other students getting caught cheating on tests or plagiarizing on their papers. I have always been curious to find out if there is a solution to this problem and what consequences will deter the students from this reoccurring each semester. When a student is caught cheating on exams or plagiarizing on their homework assignments, the college or university options should be to expel the student.
The audience for this paper is the students taking the classes, the decision makers for the college that the students attend, and the professors who teach the classes. The audience is interested in learning on how cheating and plagiarizing is affecting their schools reputation and ways to change the bad press when it happens. They want the issue stopped through swift and precise list of punishment that includes expulsion. The audience is full made up of teachers and administrators that have the master's degrees and years of teaching in their background. The audience members will be chosen based on the need for the information on plagiarizing and how it happens needs addressing through all levels at any college or university.
This paper will include what will happen to a student when he or she is caught cheating or plagiarizing on a test or paper. It will cover what the current disciplinary process is at Strayer University is, and using examples from the news, and other research articles will point out what should happen to the student when caught. The focus would be on current punishments, needs for a change based on the occurrence, and ways to improve the current disciplinary system.
The questions that I would like to explore are:
1. Are there that many instances of students cheating or plaigairizing hitting the news? What is the public being told about these events?
2. What Strayer University official policy on these instances and how is it being determined and handled?
3. What resources are available to students to stop plagiarizing from happening?
4. What causes a student to cheat?
The research for this paper will consist of looking through my current resources with the library looking for journal and news articles written on this topic. I will also be looking for magazine and news programs that may have covered this topic. Another part of the study will consist of looking at the resources online that is made available to Strayer University students to prevent them from cheating or plagiarizing. I might be including a chance to interview school administrators and ask their opinions and stance on this topic. I will keep track of my research through careful notes made in Microsoft Word and note cards. The references will be made and finished in Word.
References
Coster, M. (March 2011). Student must pay punitive damages for plagiarizing peer's paper. Campus Legal Advisor, 11(7), 9.
Kreuter, N. (2013, July 10). Benefit of the Doubt. Retrieved October 16, 2014, from Inside High Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2013/07/10/essay-how-deal-and-not-obsess-over-student-plagiarism
Sampson, Z. C. (2011, August 8). Students expelled from U.Va. shipboard program for plagiarism. Retrieved October 15, 2014, from Pilot Online: http://hamptonroads.com/2008/08/students-expelled-uva-shipboard-program-plagiarism
Simpson, K. (2012, February 12). Rise in student plagiarism cases attributed to blurred lines of digital world. Retrieved October 24, 2014, from Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_19907573
Strayer University . (2014). Student Handbook. Strayer University Corporation.
Unknown. (March 2008). Is There an Effective Approach to Deterring students from Plaigiarizing? Science and Engineering Ethics, 14(1), 139-147. 