Cheating

“ Columnist Suspended for Plagiarism.” __Bnet.__ August 2, 2008. Desert News, Salt Lake City. 4/20/09. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20080802/ai_n27980904/?tag=content;col1

This article is explaining an example of plagiarism (Everett, Wash. "Columnist Suspended for Plagiarism")As cheating continues to be an ongoing problem throughout the world, people need to become informed and learn the ways of prevention. By reading this article it will help people realize that even professional writers for big time magazines are using plagiarism to their advantage. They take past information and simply click copy and paste and suddenly they think the information becomes theirs. Although this author clearly knew the dangers of plagiarism, he still did it anyway. This shows how desperate and lazy people are and what they will risk in order to obtain a good reputation.

Cheating has become a major incident in school districts all around the globe. We should stop letting people off and begin paying more attention to this event while it continues to happen all around us. With the internet having unlimited sources people can find almost anyway to find plagiarism websites and get away with it. I believe what we should begin doing is using more efficient websites that will allow us to detect when people plagiarize straight off of the internet. One excellent website that I know of is turnitin.com ([]). Another great website for this kind of material is called WriteCheck.com ([]). This is just another piece of turnitin.com, however. These websites allow you to scan the web of all work and compare it to the work you are currently using. It will detect even the slightest word phrasings and match people who do a poor job of paraphrasing to these sources. With these tools you simply have to sign up and make an account and can have people submit their essays and papers through their instead of just bringing them into class. This website, I believe, will benefit the school systems all over and will not disappoint anyone who uses this site.

Ehrlich, Heyward. “Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism.”__Rutgers University Education.__ May 20, 1998. Rutgers University. May 7, 2009. [].  As this article states their are many detection methods. If you see things such as misspellings or poorly phrased quotes in an essay you should type it into a search engine such as (google.com or yahoo.com)(Ehrlich "Plagiarism")

--Kevin Ferry

 Cheating has become a big problem with schools across the United States over the past couple of years due to the new inventions of many new technology devices. Cell phones are being used to receive answers from special websites and also they can receive texts from peers who took the test or are taking the test at the same time. Also, cell phones and ipods are able to connect to the intrenet where the student can look an answer up right on the spot. Many high schools and colleges are worried about what is happening durin tests, especially exams. But in many cases there are strict penalties that come if found cheating, but many schools are still looking for a good punishment. Some schools are not permitting students to bring there phones to school and others are making students hand them in or make sure they are turned off Moran). There are problems though if they are not permitted because there could be a major emergency where a student may need his cell phone to make a call to afamily member or whoever (Moran). Websites are now being created that alow students to text a thing called "ChaCha" which allows students to send questions and they send the answers back to the cell phone (Moran). One way some schools are cracking down on the use of cell phones is making many classes, or as many as possible, small so it is hard or almost impossible to cheat or get answers (Moran). I think that cell phones should not be used for school purposes, but students do need to have them during class because of emergencies. I think that they are right in that they should be worried about students using cell phones to get answers from the internet because of the access phones have now-a-days. I think that if cell phones were band from class and not aloud to be brought in that could bring many problems to the class room. What if there was an emergency and someone needed to get a hold of them and they couldn’t because they were not aloud to have there phones in class. Minimizing class sizes could defenetly minimize the use of cell phones during class and test and could make learning much easier because there would not be as many students. Moran, Caitlin. "Cellphones, Handy Tools for Emergency Alerts, Could Be Used for Cheating During Tests." __Chronicle of Higher Education__ 55.7 (10 Oct. 2008): A15-A15. __MasterFILE Premier__. EBSCO. McShain Library. 10 Mar. 2009 < [] >. 

--Ryan Judge

Cheating is becoming a huge problem throughout all different ages of people. Its becoming so big that this is the easy way that people are using to be successful. The cheaters that are doing this mostly are very good and it is very tough to catch. In this modern age, it isn't just looking off of your neighbors paper, it is bringing devices into class that are a quick and easy way to get answers(Monzingo). No matter how good of eyes the teacher has, it is very hard to catch these people in the act. If the kids have the ability to use these technologies to help them cheat, there has to be some kinds of devices that can stop the cheating, right? Well that is what they are trying to find out. According to Loving and the Center of Academic Integrity, reports of cheating have decreased in the past decade. Teachers have been trying for so long to figure out a way to put an end to cheating and they have come up with a few ways. They were able to limit the ability to cheat online(Monzingo). A text-machine software has been installed at many universities and high schools to see if anythings have been plagiarized. Also, cheat proof tests that you must take online have done a good job of preventing kids to cheat. According to Clark, almost 50% have admitted to cheating in the United States. Many schools have banned the use of things like Ipods because kids were recording answers onto them and sneaking them into class(Loving). Many schools have also banned the use of phones in class(Loving), but this has not done the job. Many schools are considering putting a code on campus so that students can not get onto the internet and have no connection(Loving).

--Drew Bergman

Monzingo, Monica. "Cheating Goes High-tech." __Good Housekeeping__ 245.4 (Oct. 2007): 125-125. __MasterFILE Premier__. EBSCO. [Mcshain Library], [Philadelphia], [Pa]. 11 Mar. 2009 [].  []