In the United States, whenever students are found to have copied other people's homework or papers, the professors of the school will detain them or even impose more severe punishment, such as expelling them from American universities. Most students will receive academic integrity education at the beginning of school, and professors will clearly explain what can and cannot be done. Almost all schools have academic integrity codes to regulate students' academic behavior.
Maybe you will think that as long as you don't copy, cheat, unreasonably quote other people's papers, attend classes on time, and maintain a certain GPA level, you will definitely graduate smoothly. Of course, these are the most basic requirements. Most students can graduate on time as long as they do this, but some students have submitted their original papers or received expulsion notices from American universities. Why?
Lin is a student of 50 1 prestigious schools in the eastern United States. He usually studies hard and gets excellent grades. Teacher Lin has a hobby, which is to arrange courses with similar contents in the same semester. In his words, this arrangement is very reasonable, and similar content between courses can be referenced. Three courses can be learned as one course, which is very convenient and does not need to memorize the same content repeatedly.
There is nothing wrong with this form of course selection. It turns out that Lin can really study these courses with similar contents at the same time. Before the end of a certain period of time, the teachers of the two courses assigned similar paper assignments. When other students racked their brains to finish their papers, Lin was secretly happy. They only needed to write a paper assignment to meet the requirements of these two courses.
This problem appears in this paper assignment. Although Lin took his thesis seriously, completed it independently, quoted others' opinions reasonably, and the content was good, what Lin never expected was that he received the notice of expulsion from the school because of his thesis.
In fact, the reason why Lin was expelled was not copying others or quoting without authorization, but his opportunistic behavior of submitting homework to two courses to get grades. Maybe up to now, you don't know that there is such a provision in the academic integrity regulations of most American universities: you can't submit the same assignment to multiple courses to get grades. Why is there such a rule? A university gives an explanation in the regulations: If a student submits the same homework in different courses, then the student loses the ability to think and create independently.
It can be seen that American universities do not allow students to do this, which seems to prevent students from opportunism, but in fact it is mainly to cultivate students' ability of independent thinking and innovation. No wonder most American universities have such a code of integrity. Although Lin made a mistake because of this, the appeal was successful, and the school agreed to reduce the punishment to probation, but during Lin's school days, there will inevitably be records of academic dishonesty on his report card. But also remind other students that such petty gain is not allowed.