Academic Honesty is self-explanatory, it means to be honest in an academically related situation, such as, not copying people’s work or reusing your old work. There are consequences and harmful results when you violate the rules of academic honesty. So the easiest way is to spend one time doing your work instead of taking the short cut and redoing the work since your plagiarism will get unmasked.

When you violate the rules of academic honesty, for example, duplicating work, plagiarising, cheating or fabrication. You’re actually wasting your time. Duplicating work will only turn out bad, even if people don’t find out, one day you’ll look back and feel horrible. Rather than doing it twice, make it your best effort on the first try. However, violating the academic honesty rules not only hurt yourself, but it makes an impact on others. One simple example, when you copy someone’s work, they have to spend their time explaining that they are the actual ones who did the work, which means, you’re wasting your own time as well as other’s time. If the scenario was in a class and taking a test, if you copy another student’s work, once the teacher finds out, you both have to explain what was going on, and the teacher would be wasting their time as well. If you are working in a group or collaborating with another person, it’s best to always state who you are working with, so there is no further explanation needed. A lot of times, after you finish a group project, and sometimes you have to turn it in online, so the teacher might receive 2 items that are exactly the same. There won’t be confused if you state who you’re working with.

If you aren’t violating the rules of academic honesty, you are making the best out of the first try and not having to worry about making a “second first try“, you won’t need to go back a redo everything. But using resources from other people is definitely a good idea, enlarging the amount of knowledge and research you could show is always good. For example, if you are doing a project on a natural disaster that happened a few years ago, for sure, you will need to use another person’s work, such as a web site. However, you will need to cite it at the end of your presentation, or else you are cheating even if you didn’t mean to be.

There is a presentation that I made for the English class. As well as a student handbook, which is the place where I found the rules and all the information, such as a list of types of academic dishonesty.

Kas Student Handbook ( Section 14 : Academic Honesty) Link : http://www.kas.tw/?wpfb_dl=433 From KAS website