Ethics, Cheating and Plagiarism

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Ethics, Cheating and Plagiarism

• Presented by
• Izabela K. Dzwonkowska, Adeela Rana, Nicole
  McKoy, Syeda Zanis, Eluvina Gonzalez, Ronald
  Bruney

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Overview

• Ethics and Morals
• Cheating
• Example of cheating
• Plagiarism
• Example of plagiarism
• Conclusion
• Sources
• Questions

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Ethics and Morals

• Ethics covers the analysis and employment of
  concepts such as good, evil, right, wrong, and
  ones responsibilities.
• Morals or Morality refers to the concept of human
  ethics which pertain to matters of right and
  wrong, and define a mode of proper conduct.

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Cheating

• Cheating is an act of deception, fraud, trickery,
  imposture, or imposition. The term cheating
  usually refers to the breaking of rules but not
  laws.
• Cheating in education has
• become increasingly
• pervasive at all levels,
• according to survey
• research.

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Cheating Example
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Plagiarism

• A piece of writing that has been copied from
  someone else and is presented as being your own
  work
• Incremental plagiarism
• Failing to give credit for particular parts of a
  speech that are borrowed from other people.

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Plagiarism

• Intentional plagiarism
• Is when the writer purposefully uses someone
  elses ideas or work without properly
  acknowledging the source or not acknowledging the
  source at all.
• Patchwork plagiarism
• Stealing ideas or language from two or three
  sources and passing them off as ones own idea.

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Plagiarism Example
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Conclusion

• Ethics- is performing the good or right thing to
  do.
• Cheating and Plagiarism- are both unethical
  violation of all colleges and universities code
  of honor.
• Plagiarism is a specific type of cheating that is
  more severe.
• Plagiarism- is unethical and known as stealing or
  trying to get credit for someone elses work.

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Sources

• http//gbr.pepperdine.edu/022/images/ethics.gif
• http//www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.19.96/g
  ifs/ethics-9651.jpg
• http//www.njit.edu/academics/honorcode.php
• http//www.google.com/search?hlenlrdeflenqd
  efinePlagiarismsaXoiglossary_definitionctti
  tle

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Questions