There’s a policy in school that keeps students’ academic work without plagiarism, cheating, copying, lying, tampering, or having any assistance from any other person. Which most of the students might feel painful while hearing about this policy. The policy is called the Academic Honesty Policy. Are you familiar with this? or are you also the one who dislikes about this policy during your school life?

If you had done those improper things during your assignments, it led to the opposite policy of academic honesty policy: Academic Dishonesty Policy. It’s a policy that keeps any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise. It’s a policy for students that had lied or cheating during any exams or assignments. This policy is mostly in every level of educations, from elementary school to university. It keeps people away from cheating and copying works from others.

I think there’s a type of assignment that is hard for the teacher to know did the students did the improper things during the assignments. “Group work”, it is difficult to grade by each person because teachers don’t really know each part of the work was completed by who. One person might do everything for the whole group or maybe works are divided equally in a group which it should be the right thing to do in a group assignment. This problem might lead to a sense of academic dishonesty. Based on my research on the website of University of Toronto about academic integrity, students are normally encouraged to study in groups or work with peers to improve their skill of being in a team. However, sharing work without author acknowledgment can create the risk of students providing or receiving unauthorized aid and the risk of honest work falling into the wrong hands.

There’s a quote that I think is valuable for everyone to know: “Tell a lie once and all your truth become questionable.” Don’t even try to tell a lie first because if others find out it’s a lie, it’s hard to make others to trust you and your opinions again. Honesty shouldn’t just be a thing happen in your school life, it should be everywhere during your life time. Be sure, to be honest to anyone and also be respectful to everyone.

sources: (University of Toronto) http://academicintegrity.utoronto.ca/group-work

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