Academic honesty research paper (with a survey)

Is it important to insure academic integrity to maintain the overall value of education?

I am sure if it is right to put it here, but for my paper, I need to do a survey.
Could anybody answer these questions? I need at least ten people, please.
If you don't like to overt your information, you can send me a e-mail: rasphe@hotmail.com
Due jan-20
What's your school?
What's you grade level? (Highschool, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Master, PhD, etc.)
Can I use your name to do the citation?
If yes, please give me your name and indicate if it is first name or last name.
If no, please indicate that you want to be anonymous.


1. Do you think honesty is an important characteristic for one to succeed in life? How do you think honesty would affect one's life?

2. How about in academic career?

3. Have you ever been a witness to someone committing academic cheating (any form)?

4. If yes for the above question, what was his/her relationship with you? (good friends, classmate, stranger, etc.) Explain how s/he cheated? How did you feel at that time?

5. Talk about how you think someone who cheats.

6. Have you ever cheated in academic field (any form, include accidental failure of citing source)? Could you explain the situation? How did it affect your later career?

7. If not, do you feel proud of yourself? Do you feel confident of success?

thank you so much!

1. I do believe that life require honesty, but to succeed in it depends on the view of each individual, and cirumstances. Take "white-lies" for example, it is bad to lie, but it could be a good action to take if the truth is harmful to the person who is effected by that truth. For me, its better to tell the truth even if it does hurt at the time, but if I don't tell the truth when it happens, it might come back to haunt me and maybe hurt me and the person involved even more severe.

2. The truth in academic career need the most honesty in it. To start out truthfully, means you'll end truthfully. Both you and your conscience would feel better, and in turn you wont have to worry about unnecessary things and just worry about studying instead.

3 & 4. I have wittness cheating before, but its never anything major. That particular class mate sometimes ask for help during vocabulary quizes ( one or twice). That's all. If it were to happen during a test, than its really bad and I would tell the teacher to watch out for that classmate, but I wouldn't tell that he was cheating... At the time, I didn't feel that it was right, but didn't say anything because I know he is a good student.

5. ? maybe the above answer is the answer to this question too.

6. I do regrett asking help from my classmate one time for a vocabuary definition like my classmate from above. But after that quiz, I felt really wrong and disgusted with myself, and vouch that i would study the quizes better, or if i don't know the word, then i would just have to leave it blank....It has been like this four the last 3 years now, and even though i get a bad grade for incompleteness, I feel good about myself afterward.

7. doesn't need to be answer

please don't complain that my answers are cheesy, because you asked me say them..;} you can address me a L.H. as one your source if you decided to use these answers. I'm a senior, but I'm sorry I don't want to tell you my school.. best wishes...

1. Do you think honesty is an important characteristic for one to succeed in life? How do you think honesty would affect one's life?

Depends upon your definition of success. For attaining meaningful happiness, yes, honesty is important. Ditto for respect, both from yourself and from others. For obtaining power, and to a certain extent money, not so so much. In those cases it may even be an obstacle. So, the answer is different depending upon how you define success.

2. How about in academic career?

Honesty is very important in an academic career. If you cheat or otherwise obtain your degrees through dishonesty, then you have only deprived yourself of an education. You can buy marks easily enough, by paying someone else to do your work for you, but you can't buy what the marks represent, or gain any of the benefits of being educated, though you might temporarily gain the benefits of having a degree, which is different.

3. Have you ever been a witness to someone committing academic cheating (any form)?

Yes.

4. If yes for the above question, what was his/her relationship with you? (good friends, classmate, stranger, etc.) Explain how s/he cheated? How did you feel at that time?

I have known students who were willing to buy essays and submit them as their own. Mostly I felt contempt for them, as they were really only cheating themselves of the very thing their parents were paying for.

5. Talk about how you think someone who cheats.

This question as phrased makes no sense. But, I believe that those who cheat do so mostly out of ignorance. They view a degree as a means to an end (employment) rather than as a worthwhile experience in and of itself.

6. Have you ever cheated in academic field (any form, include accidental failure of citing source)? Could you explain the situation? How did it affect your later career?

No.

7. If not, do you feel proud of yourself? Do you feel confident of success?

No, not proud. My reasons are purely selfish. Cheating makes no sense if you understand the purpose of education. Besides, I'd feel really guilty if I cheated, which is a personal characteristic that I had no say in, so why should I be proud of it? The second question makes no sense, as I have already graduated with my Masters degree, and so have succeeded, academically speaking.

1. Do you think honesty is an important characteristic for one to succeed in life? How do you think honesty would affect one's life?
I'd have to say it depends on the situation you are in. I dont think honesty has anything to do with success. Some people would tend to make excuses, or lies to achieve success. It depends on what other people call karma. Its all part of life. Even the most successful person in the world--lets say have lied already. But im not telling people that its good to lie or its ok to lie, but its always gonna be part of how our life spins its wheel.

2. How about in academic career?
Well, academic career..Honesty is important. Who are you gonna fool? Who are you gonna lie at other than yourself.

3. Have you ever been a witness to someone committing academic cheating (any form)?

YES. as in big YES.

4. If yes for the above question, what was his/her relationship with you? (good friends, classmate, stranger, etc.) Explain how s/he cheated? How did you feel at that time?

Classmate. This one pays one student from another section to do the dirty job for her..like projects.. and some during exams . sharing of answers.

5. Talk about how you think someone who cheats.

I pitty them.

6. Have you ever cheated in academic field (any form, include accidental failure of citing source)? Could you explain the situation? How did it affect your later career?

Yes. honestly.. I was failing calculus and i dint like the very fact that i was; considering myself being the math wizard i was during my younger years.. one time i asked my better-in-calculus classmate to do my assignment for me. it dint affect me that bad. he later on tought me how the numbers and variables rolled in that subject.

7. If not, do you feel proud of yourself? Do you feel confident of success?

Not really, i still need to learn alot. not just more information but also on how to get the proper personality of a successful person. For people out there, Dont rely on people beside you all the time. they wont be there for the rest of your life.

thank you so much!

just put on anonymous..
Pilgrim Christian College
3rd year high school student

yeah, way too lazy to answer all those questions. lol