Academic honesty is very important here at Arizona State University. Now that we are college students we are more responsible and mature to understand that cheating is unacceptable and it includes consequences. When we cheat we hurt no only ourselves, but others around us. We're not being fair to ourselves, but most especially to the people who we cheat from. There's no reason to sell ourselves short because we got in this school due to our hard work and effort and there's no reason to change that.
As stated in the presentation by Joe Bunker, "studies have shown that acting with integrity or doing the right thing can become a habit." As long as we stay on the right path, we won't ever need to worry about ever cheating or turning in a paper that is not ours. This is why it is very important to always do the right thing. We got this far accomplishing this, why not go all the way?
Another important statement by Joe Bunker is, "Keep in mind that there may be both short and long-term consequences for academic dishonesty at Arizona State University." We either redo the assignment, fail it or receive an XE. It's not worth it. Why risk everything we've worked hard for? If we want people to take us seriously in the real world we need to prove that we are serious about our education first. We need to prove to our professors that we are honest and that our education is very important to us. One day we will be so glad and happy that we maintained academic integrity.
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You are right when you say that we need to prove to our professors that we care and value our education. To be successful in school we have to earn our teacher's trust and we will do this by abiding by the academic integrity policies.
Well stated. We must have academic integrity to be successful in school and in our careers once we get our degrees.
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