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Reasons/Excuses for Dishonesty

Students offer many reasons and excuses for committing academic dishonesty.  Hopefully, identifying some of them here will heighten awareness and lead to intervention, if necessary. 

  • Ignorance about rules

  • Careless note-taking

  • Stress; desperation

  • Competition to get ahead

  • Everybody’s doing it; few get caught

  • Economizing and poor time management

  • Fear of failure

  • Lack of interest in the subject matter

  • Technological ease

 



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