Final Group Essay 
Academic Dishonesty
Paulo, M Palacios
Shepherd, Maytawee
Maggie
Cice
Vancouver Island University
Academic Preparation #4
October, 22, 14
Professor: Gavin McConville
While students study in Vancouver Island University, (VIU) they make an effort on their studies and want to be successful on their education. Some students infringe the rules of university by using a wrong method of learning. Just like Bjrklund and Grand mentioned in their work, cheating has been a problem for many years during the academic preparation. Sometimes parents have high expectations on their children and they will expect high grades on their child’s transcript. This will cause a lot of pressure on children, so they refuse to fail and will do everything as possible for approve, no matter if this implicates cheating. Other times students don’t have the right knowledge, so they paraphrase in the wrong way. These behaviors are reflected along the academic preparation from elementary grades through college and subsequently in life; as stated by Harvard University in the article published by Time, “Students have cheated for as long as there have been schools” (Time, 2012, Web). Nevertheless, what is the real definition of cheating? It is difficult to give a specific meaning for cheating; however, studies found that the two most common factors for academic dishonesty are peer pressure and high parental expectations.
There are no doubts that the effects of academic dishonesty are very harmful. The most common example is that punishment, failure to learn and habit form. Students are cheating on their assignment and in their test to achieve higher grades, but punishment is always waiting for them if they are discovered; the reality is that they will failure to learn as what they did for their self- studying; but when they find out the problem and begin to concerned about the serve points, the bad habits of academic dishonesty have already formed, then they restart again, which is so-
Paulo, M Palacios
Shepherd, Maytawee
Maggie
Cice
Vancouver Island University
Academic Preparation #4
October, 22, 14
Professor: Gavin McConville
While students study in Vancouver Island University, (VIU) they make an effort on their studies and want to be successful on their education. Some students infringe the rules of university by using a wrong method of learning. Just like Bjrklund and Grand mentioned in their work, cheating has been a problem for many years during the academic preparation. Sometimes parents have high expectations on their children and they will expect high grades on their child’s transcript. This will cause a lot of pressure on children, so they refuse to fail and will do everything as possible for approve, no matter if this implicates cheating. Other times students don’t have the right knowledge, so they paraphrase in the wrong way. These behaviors are reflected along the academic preparation from elementary grades through college and subsequently in life; as stated by Harvard University in the article published by Time, “Students have cheated for as long as there have been schools” (Time, 2012, Web). Nevertheless, what is the real definition of cheating? It is difficult to give a specific meaning for cheating; however, studies found that the two most common factors for academic dishonesty are peer pressure and high parental expectations.
There are no doubts that the effects of academic dishonesty are very harmful. The most common example is that punishment, failure to learn and habit form. Students are cheating on their assignment and in their test to achieve higher grades, but punishment is always waiting for them if they are discovered; the reality is that they will failure to learn as what they did for their self- studying; but when they find out the problem and begin to concerned about the serve points, the bad habits of academic dishonesty have already formed, then they restart again, which is so-