Reader Response 9/25- Academic Honesty
After reviewing the academic honesty part of GSW, I now understand how important it is to one’s studies to be honest. Honesty has always been a value of mine, and this discussion helped me realize how important it is when you are in school. Some of the major points that stuck out to me were the topics of plagiarism and threatening of students or faculty members. At any school, plagiarism is something that is taken very seriously. Teachers will all agree that it is something that is horrible for students to do, and the punishments should and will be very bad. Some forms of plagiarism are simply copying a website or book and not giving credible references, using an older student’s paper as your own, and even purchasing papers. When I read the last one, it truly didn’t make sense to me. How could someone act so lowly and buy a paper for a class. A student should always do the work him or her self.
Another form of academic dishonesty that stood out to me was threatening of faculty members or students. Students sometimes use force in order to get good grades by either threatening a fellow student into helping or writing a paper, or even threatening faculty members into getting high grades. I could understand how students would threaten fellow students, but I couldn’t understand how a student would have both the courage and stupidity to threaten a faculty members. Usually teacher will be bigger than the students, although not always, but I feel that most faculty members have a sort of power of their students. Maybe it’s just something I believe but I would never threaten a faculty member, or student for that matter. This discussion about academic dishonesty helped me understand more about the different types of academic dishonesty, and the consequences that they bring.