Academic Dishonesty

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This paper examines how academic dishonesty has existed as long as organized schooling, whether in the form of glancing at a neighboring student's examination, copying a classmate's homework, or plagiarizing source material in written assignments. It looks at how academic dishonesty has increased dramatically over the last several years due to the Internet and recent technological advances in communication technology, which have enabled students to devise clever new strategies to facilitate cheating during in-class examinations.

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"Instructors have recently begun addressing the problem by availing themselves of Internet services such as Turnitin.com, a subscription service that compares submitted portions of student papers to Internet material and alerts to any suspected instances of inappropriate similarity (Slobogin). Professor Donald M. McCabe of Duke University is an expert on academic dishonesty who founded the Center for Academic Integrity, a consortium of two hundred colleges and universities dedicated to preserving academic integrity. According to McCabe, one of the most important tools in the fight against academic dishonesty (and plagiarism in particular) is well-informed instructors who are equally adept with the relatively new Internet medium as their students."

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