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2.2 Short Paper Cheating Culture

2.2 Short Paper Cheating Culture

Q Review the articles found from the links below and chose one article on which to write your paper. • Internet plagiarism in higher education: tendencies, triggering factors and reasons among teacher candidates • Cheating in Higher Education: The Case of Multi-Methods Cheaters • Academic Dishonesty: Behaviors, Sanctions, and Retention of Adjudicated College Students • To Cheat or Not to Cheat: Academic Dishonesty in the College Classroom • Academic Dishonesty: Are More Students Cheating? As you read, consider how educational goals and the American value placed on educational success could produce strain as detailed by sociologist Robert Merton. Then write a short paper that applies Merton's Anomie Theory "modes of adaptation" to educational cheating. For your paper, begin with a summary of your selected article. What form or forms of academic dishonesty were presented? What rationalization, motivations, neutralizations, excuses, or contextual considerations for cheating were detailed? Write a paper responding to these questions: Which of Merton's adaptations (ritualists, rebelling, innovation, or retreatism) best apply to the article? Why? To complete this assignment, review the Short Paper/Case Study Analysis Rubric> document.

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In school children are taught morals and values. Children learn the importance of ethics and honesty that they should maintain throughout their lives, especially in institutions. In the educational system, few students work very hard, but some do not feel the need of giving effort as they move to higher studies. This gives rise to academic dishonesty where students try different methods to make their work easy without giving the extra effort.