A survey was held, and questionnaires were given to students and study showed that almost all of the cheaters found the classless personalized, boring and ineffective. A student who prefers cheating after some time will not be able to relate to the class. The only thing they will master is dishonest and disrespectful behavior not only at university but later on in their careers.
In the article "Some plagiarism serious enough to diminish our faith ", Tom Palamia discusses some cases of plagiarism in an academic world. The article opens up with a story about Eugene Tobin - the former president of Hamilton College who used Amazon's user review while talking about a mystery novel without giving them a proper citation. Palamia states that plagiarism is a huge problem otherwise Tobin would still be the president of Hamilton College. The second case discussed in this article is about a well-known writer who not only copied from Nobel Prize winner writer but didn't even give a reference about it preferring just to paraphrase the idea that he used. Palamia draws patterns between military and literature world stating that if Hedges was a cadet for his slug he wouldn't get away that easily. What the article states about is how plagiarism is very relevant to even the academic world and how it should be avoided. Plagiarism causes doubts in readers and the trust that they lose the trust have for the authors and cannot decide if their voices are worth listening to.
Avoiding cheating and plagiarism would create a healthy academic environment for students to succeed. The truth is sometimes Plagiarism can be unintentional.Such thing happened in Harvard University.125 student's were accused of cheating on the take-home exam. They were accused of collaborating which was not permitted on the exam. The problem is that students didn't acknowledge that they have cheated on the exam.They told that instructions were confusing, and also the questions were tricky.