Academic Honesty.

Plagiarism is defined as the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. I think that most students resort to academic honesty because they are too lazy, too busy or they just forgot. Some students know that they have homework that they need to finish but they also know that they have someone to copy off of if they need to so they just choose to do copy their friends work instead of doing it themselves. Other students that have to work full time jobs and/or take care of their families simply just can’t find the time to do the work themselves because they have other more important things to do. The last kind of student is the forgetful kind. They get so caught up in things that are happening around them that they just push that homework assignment into the back of their minds. Avoiding academic dishonesty is hard, as wrong as it may be many students are guilty of it. Thanks to the internet, it is easier for English professors to catch students that are plagiarizing but that still leaves out all the other professors. Maybe if professors could think of a way to help remind those forgetful students we could eliminate one group. As for the others, making students do most of their work in class would help lower the rates of academic dishonesty by allowing the professor to watch the students do their work.ized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.