Why do students cheat?
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They are trying to find the easy way out.  What they dont realize is that by cheating now, they are only hurting themselves in the future.  Cheaters dont win and winners dont cheat.
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And another thing - won't this person's teacher know (s)he cheated, when the assignment turned in clearly isn't in the student's usual wording or of his/her usual quality? In this day and age, teachers must be pretty good at spotting "cut-and-paste-from-wikipedia"-papers, as well as papers written by other people than the student in question.\nAnyway, thanks for bringing this up, it's nice to see that a lot of people are somewhat annoyed by students using Y! answers as their free, effortless homework-service. :o)
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it is not as easy to cheat, in fact with all the new standards i would say that it is harder. Plus the consequences are worse, (expulsion) \n\nBTW: I think you meant are not is
942540
They probably do it to cut down on cheating.
894043
Well, just like other distracting items, game boys, squirt guns or any other toys the teacher has a right to confiscate it.\nMany students are also using cell phone to cheat on tests by taking pictures of the test or texting the answers.
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The problem is that some tutors are editors rather than teachers.  It's one thing for a student to have a tutor help him or her make sense out of sentence diagramming or explain the relative merits of ending sentences with prepositions; more instruction is generally better, so long as it doesn't conflict with the point of view expressed in the classroom.\n\nBut, some "tutors" get involved in helping students with specific assignments, including writing assignments such as essays.  These misguided "tutors" can involve themselves in all sorts of things--from helping choose a topic, to assisting in choosing supporting ideas, and even proofreading for grammar or other errors.  The worst "tutors" do these parts of the work for the student.  Others at least have the sense to try to teach the student something while helping with these tasks.\n\nWhat the students too often fail to realize is that any of this kind of "assistance" on an assignment, received without the knowledge and approval of the instructor, is academic dishonesty as well as plagiarism.  It is academic dishonesty because it is unauthorized collaboration; the student is working with someone else to complete the assignment, without the permission of the teacher.  Further, it is plagiarism because the student submits the work as her or his own, not acknowledging the input from the "tutor."\n\nThere are, of course, cases in which instructors ask students to participate collaboratively in all of the activities mentioned above.  But, the fundamental difference is that if the instructor asks that it be done, it is then approved, and is understood to have been a part of the writing process.  (And it is typically done in a controlled setting.)
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I can sit here and say.."You should not cheat..it's morally wrong..yadda yadda yadda" But I'm not going to give you that lecture when i myself have cheated! yea its wrong and i shouldn't have done it....but sometimes it happens! I dont do it often, but i admit its happened! so if you really want to go through with cheating...i find the best way is to write answers on a tiny sheet of paper and place in your chair between your legs....what teacher is gonna look there! by doing this, you can look at the answers with your eyes and not make it obvious by moving your head! I suggest not cheating b/c by doing it you dont learn anything! it bites you in the butt later down the line...but its your life...you control it.
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You shouldn't be asking your homework questions here.\n\nHmmm.  Why am I worried that someone who has to cheat to pass might just be a med student?
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The biggest reason is cheating.
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I'm assuming you mean why do CHEATING golfers cheat...not many I know do.\n\nThose that do seem to have self-esteem problems.  They somehow see the golf score as a reflection of their self worth.
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I use Yahoo Answers searches to see if my students are using it to cheat! I have gotten lucky, and they have gotten a zero! Bit of profiling there, although I know that is not what you meant!
830345
once a cheater always a cheater, why try to make it work?
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My girlfiend of 7 years cheated on me recently. I trusted her. She has a night class on Tuesday and Thursday nights.\nShe ended up seeing the teacher more than just in class.\nI am NOT going to give her another chance to do it again.\nOnce a cheater, always a cheater.
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why does students the most problem in the school?
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No, I have not. Cheating is not fun or getting something over on the teacher and your parents. Cheating is only hurting yourself. Instead of cheating, you should have studied every night throughout the year so that you would know the material of the course and all you would have to when the teacher announced that it was time for finals would be to review the material. This does mean waiting until the last minute and staying up all night studying or having some friends over ostensibly to study but instead partying all night until the early hours of the morning so that nobody knows anything the next day. When you take a course in high school or college or even elementary school, it is wrong to cheat because as I said earlier you are only hurting yourself; you're mot hurting anybody else.
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why do you think you are being cheated
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As a  teacher I have found that in most cases the use of the Internet is a positive research tool. Most students would rather click on the computer than go do real research in the library, but if you use the Internet correctly it can be a valuable time saver.  The down side is I have see so much plagiarism that students aren't thinking for themselves any more.... like all technology it is a positive tool when used with logic and for the right reasons.