Academic Integrity

Academic honesty to me means that a person does all of their own work without copying from a reference or from another person. They are being honest about the work that they have done and should be proud that they did it with out cheating or copying from someone else. There are many issues surrounding academic honesty. The issues start with the fact that academic dishonesty puts the honest students at a disadvantage in classes, there needs to be a stronger culture of academic integrity, and academic dishonesty is more prevalent now than it has been in the past. The definition of plagairism is to steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own or to use with out crediting the source. Academic integrity is defined at this website. There could be many reasons why students would resort to academic dishonesty. Some causes include poor study habits, having many assignments at the same time, fear to express one's own ideas, a lack of confidence in one's writing skills, and poor time managment. Some suggestions or solutions for maintaining academic integrity and avoiding dishonesty issues are to manage your time better to where you have plenty of time to do assignments and not have to copy someone else's work. Also start developing your own ideas, and also people could learn to take more pride in doing their own work and have a better sense of self-satisfaction.