Introduction
-get the audience to care- Would you feel safe if you found out your doctor had cheated on tests in Medical School? Cheating is one of the more serious issues in education today. Cheating has increased significantly in the past century, and continues to rise.
-establish ethos
Various reports indicate that between 75% and 90% of students have cheated before, and people are constantly trying to battle cheating.
-thesis statement
-working thesis: Current methods for battling cheating do not work, and new solutions taken from different points of view are required, such as increasing the respectfulness of teachers and changing the classroom environment, increasing the punishments for cheating, having teachers take other precautions, and an increase in the social awareness of cheating.
Definition Paragraph
Cheating: Cheating is when one student uses the work of another, with or without the other’s permission. Cheating can include taking answers from another student on a test, copying another’s homework answers if the instructor prohibits such activity, and various forms of plagiarism.
Perceived: appears to be a certain way, is thought to be a certain way
Review of Literature
Regarding Punishment and Community Issues
In the article “Study Of A Cognitive Dissonance Intervention To Address High School Students' Cheating Attitudes And Behaviors” (2009) by Edward J. Vinski and Georgiana S. Tryon, the authors claim that cheating is not punished in schools.
In the article “Situational And Personal Causes Of Student Cheating” (2009) by David A. Rettinger and Yair Kramer, the authors claim that cheating in schools is in part caused by other students’ cheating, and that seeing others cheat can lead to an increase in cheating.
In the article “Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Cheating: The Influence Of Direct Knowledge And Attitudes On Academic Dishonesty” (2010) by David A. Rettinger, et al, the authors claim that an increase in reporting of cheating would deter cheaters because others would see cheaters being caught.
Regarding Things Teachers Can do
In the article “Methods Of Cheating And Deterrents To Classroom Cheating: An International Study” by Michael B. Witek, et al., the authors claims that cheating has increased since 1942 and that some methods can be used to deter cheating.
In Tamera B. Murdock, Anne S. Beauchamp, and Amber M. Hinton’s article “Predictors Of Cheating And Cheating Attributions: Does Classroom Context Influence Cheating And Blame For Cheating?,” the authors claim that acceptance for cheating in school can be attributed to perceptions of the fairness of the classroom and traits of the teacher, such as respectfulness and competence.
Argument/Analysis
-what teachers can do
-respectfulness
-mastery over performance
-report more cheating
-what administrators can do
-increase the punishment to cheaters
-streamline the reporting process
-what students can do
-better awareness of cheating, peer pressure, understand cheating is wrong
-report cheaters
Conclusion
-restatement of thesis: Overall, the issues of increasing the respectfulness of teachers and changing the classroom environment, increasing the punishments for cheating, and having teachers pay more attention to cheating are issues that need to be examined when attempting to solve cheating.
-call for action
-optimistic “farewell”
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