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CHEATING

KEY VOCABULARY
Cheating at school: to be a cheat, to gain unfair advantage, to mislead, to
deceive, admit, assume, copy, plagiarize, (electronic) plagiarism, anti-plagiarism
software, worrisome, commonplace, mimic, enforce (laws, regulations, ethical
codes), punish, (academic) ethics/integrity, to catch sb cheating / to be caught
cheating, evidence, moral behaviour, to have very little sense of moral outrage, to
cut corners, to promote integrity, to police sts dishonesty, deterrents to cheating.

The Biggest Cheaters (www.headsupenglish.com)

In the past year, 56% of MBA graduate students admitted to cheating, such as plagiarizing,
copying the work of another student, or bringing answers into a test. This figure means that
masters of business administration students cheat more than any other type of graduate
student in any other field. More worrisome is the fact that many MBA students assume that
cheating is okay. With the recent rise in corporate scandals in the last few years, cheating is
looked at as an acceptable form of business practice. The authors of the report understand
that something must be done, because ignoring the problem simply supports the belief that
cheating is accepted and commonplace. The fear of lawsuits ties the hands of many
professors, though; in this respect, the academic world has begun to mimic the corporate
world. All you need is the threat and the muscle to sue in order to get what you want. More
needs to be done to enforce ethical codes before cheating occurs. Graduate students need
to be taught, and they need to understand, that ethics matter in business. Therefore,
faculty should repeatedly talk with students about academic ethics that begins with
recruiting, continues in orientation sessions and initiation ceremonies, and continues
throughout the program. Others have suggested putting into practice a community based
reward-punishment system; all the members of the community, in this case MBA students
in a class, are punished in some way by a cheater. Experts say this copies the real business
world, where a community of shareholders has a common interest. They are affected
equally by the decisions of a company or company representative.

Cheating in sports: drug-taking, drug cheat, banned performance-enhancing drugs,


unusual blood readings, revelations of systematic doping, to improve performance, steroids,
to go against the spirit of sport, match fixing, to commit a foul, to be sent-off, to be
disqualified, to alter the condition of equipment, deliberate harassment or injury to
competitors, to cheat your way to victory, to protest, to be banned from (athletics).

Source: New English File Intermediate Students Book

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