How to Cheat Successfully and get away with it

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How to Cheat Successfully and get away with it!

• Dr. Simon Stobart

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Disclaimer

• The University of Sunderland does not condone
  cheating in any form and those found guilty will
  be severely dealt with.

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Aims and Objectives

• Explain cheating
• To describe how to do it
• To explain how to get away with it
• To clarify what will happen if you get caught

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What is Cheating?

• To deceive or practice deceit especially for
  ones own gain.
• To obtain unfair advantage by trickery.
  (Collins English Dictionary)

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University Regulations

• http//www.sunderland.ac.uk/wm0ase/infring.htm

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Different Types of Cheating

• Cheating (Exam)
• Collusion
• Falsifying
• Impersonating
• Plagiarism

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Penalties for Infringement
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Penalties for Infringement

• agree not to impose a penalty

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Penalties for Infringement

• deem the student to have failed in the specific
  assessment in which the infringement occurred

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Penalties for Infringement

• deem the student to have failed in all the
  assessments for the module, in which case the
  student may be permitted to retake the module, at
  cost, by referral or repeat with attendance

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Penalties for Infringement

• in the case of a student who is found to have
  committed a grave infringement, or to have
  infringed more than once, make a recommendation
  about the student's progression to the Programme
  Assessment Board, as it thinks appropriate

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Cheating Statistics

• How many people cheat each year on the Schools
  Masters programmes?
• 1
• 5
• 10
• 15

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Cheating Statistics

• 18

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Cheating Statistics
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The Most Common Cheat

• Plagiarism is the most common form of cheating
  encountered.
• The next eight pages are adapted from Earl
  Babbies work at

http//www.csubak.edu/ssric/Modules/Other/plagiari
sm.htm
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A Look At Plagiarism

• It has become common amongst University Lecturers
  to arrive late for lectures on the grounds that
  students normally arrive late and thus to start
  teaching on time would be pointless.

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A Look At Plagiarism

• I feel it has become common amongst University
  Lecturers to arrive late for lectures on the
  grounds that students normally arrive late and
  thus to start teaching on time would be pointless.

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A Look At Plagiarism

• I feel it has become the norm amongst University
  Lecturers to arrive late for lectures on the
  grounds that students usually arrive late and
  thus to start teaching on time would be pointless.

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A Look At Plagiarism

• I feel it has become the norm amongst University
  Lecturers to arrive late for lectures on the
  grounds that students usually arrive quite late
  and thus to start teaching on time would be
  rather pointless.

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A Look At Plagiarism

• The majority of University teaching staff now
  arrive late for classes because their students
  arrive late and therefore to begin lecturing is a
  waste of time.

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Proper Use

• It has become common amongst University
  Lecturers to arrive late for lectures on the
  grounds that students normally arrive late and
  thus to start teaching on time would be
  pointless. (S. C. Stobart, 2000)

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Proper Use

• Simon Stobart stated (2000) that It has become
  common amongst University Lecturers to arrive
  late for lectures on the grounds that students
  normally arrive late and thus to start teaching
  on time would be pointless.

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Reference Everything!

• Beware the Bibliography what is this for?.
• Reference everything
• especially when you make a statement.

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But Why Do Students Cheat?

• Lazy
• Very Lazy
• Foolish
• Both lazy and Foolish

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The BIG Problem

• Lazy students cannot be bothered to be good
  cheats.
• Foolish students are not clever enough to be good
  cheats.

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The THEORY

• Only clever students are capable of cheating and
  getting away with it.

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In Practice

• Few students
• Think that they are lazy.
• Think that they are foolish.
• Think that they will get away with cheating.

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Electronic Documents

• Its easy to cheat if you have an electronic copy
  of a document.
• Where can we get large numbers of electronic
  documents from?

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E-Documents

• THE INTERNET

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E-Documents
http//www.ieee.org/products/periodicals.html
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E-Documents - Libraries
http//www.idealibrary.com
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E-Documents
My Assignment
This paragraph has been taken directly from this
web page and pasted into the students document
without referencing the web page whatsoever. The
student hopes that the reader will never know
that this is not their own work.
This paragraph has been taken directly from this
web page and pasted into the students document
without referencing the web page whatsoever. The
student hopes that the reader will never know
that this is not their own work.
This paragraph has been taken directly from this
web page and pasted into the students document
without referencing the web page whatsoever. The
student hopes that the reader will never know
that this is not their own work.
This paragraph has been taken directly from this
web page and pasted into the students document
without referencing the web page whatsoever. The
student hopes that the reader will never know
that this is not their own work.
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E-Documents
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E-Document Problems

• Compiled documents dont read right.
• Academic staff surf the WWW too.
• Easy to search for documents.

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Cheat Sites - OPPapers

• http//www.oppapers.com/

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Cheat Sites

• For a fee you can
• Download whole papers
• Have experts write you a paper

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Cheat Site Problems

• They cost money.
• The quality of papers are poor.
• The papers are never exactly what is required.
• Limited number of papers.
• The papers tend to Americanized.

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It Gets Worse!

• Software is available to check assignments for
  cheating.
• Performed automatically.
• Produces detailed reports.
• Becoming more sophisticated.

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It Gets Worse!

• http//www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml

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Turnitin
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Turnitin
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Turnitin
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Turnitin
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Turnitin
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Turnitin
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Conclusions

• Dont cheat unless you are
• Cleverer than those assessing your work.
• Willing to put time and effort into cheating.

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Conclusions

• If you are hard working then there is no need to
  cheat.