Discussion: Academic Integrity and Ethical Use of Information
Description
Read the article and respond to the questions listed below the article. Answer the questions in essay form (i.e. in complete paragraphs rather than by answering each question individually). Your post should be about 250-300 words (about two paragraphs), not including the citations at the end. The majority of your comments should reflect your own ideas, but you should support your points by referring to specific ideas or information from the source.
Whenever you include someone else’s ideas or information, you must cite the source of those ideas, whether you quote directly, summarize, or paraphrase from the source. For this discussion, you should include both an in-text citation and a full citation at the end of your essay. Hanging indents (indenting all the lines in the citation except the first line) are difficult to format in Canvas and are not required in discussion posts.
Article:
Hahamy, Madison, and Kevin Chan. “As Pandemic Continues, Cheating Gains Speed.” Yale Daily News, 28 Apr., 2021.
(Links to an external site.).
Questions:
Describe the main points or arguments made in the article in a way that someone who hasn’t read it will understand (imagine the article is a movie or TV show and you are describing the plot to a friend who hasn’t seen it).
In this article, a student states that “it was very ethical to cheat” during the pandemic because of the classroom circumstances. How would you respond to a roommate or friend that gave you this rationale for cheating?
What are two or three reasons why it is valuable to cite your sources and produce your own original writing in your major (or in college in general)?
What do you think colleges/professors should do to help students understand academic integrity expectations? What do you think students should do to understand these expectations?
Be sure that you have referenced the article in your post, used in-text citations, and included the full MLA works cited citation for the article (provided above) at the end of your post.
