Schooling liars

                                                   

Cheating or plagiarism is a common problem in a lot of schools, universities, institutions, companies, and even at work.  Cheating is acting untruthfully or unfairly in order to gain an advantage. Plagiarism is taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. We see these problems all the time, even at Mount Saint Vincent University. I believe that the problem of academic cheating or plagiarism is in the academic setting because every university has its own policy and they are very strict about these rules. MSVU’s policy about cheating or plagiarism is getting an academic offence, getting a zero on the assignment, and even being kicked out of MSVU. Some people never got caught, but they are responsible for their own future. 

How are you going to be successful in your future goals if you do not learn, and cheat all the time? Some individuals do not understand this now, but once they get to the point of getting a job and asking you to do a marketing plan, and you do not know how to do it then you will be replaced by someone else. This will make you regret every single time you have cheated or plagiarized at university or elsewhere too. I think plagiarizing and cheating should be stricter because people will not learn from their mistakes unless you give them something that will teach them not to cheat any more  As an example, they should have a course to students who are caught cheating through courses, and of course give those academic offences and other penalties.

People take risks all the time, so I do not see anything wrong for students taking risk to cheat. Life is about taking risks. But this is not my point. I do not encourage it because if you get caught then you will understand why you do not have to take this risk. Students who cheat to improve their grades is unfair for other students around because other students are working very hard to get a good grade, while the cheaters are not doing anything and still receiving good grades. In my opinion, cheaters should stop what they are doing and follow the rules and policies of cheating and plagiarizing because if they do not they will get in big trouble and they will not be successful in their future terms.