Academic Honesty

Academic honesty is very important to me. I think it is important because not only are you being honest with your instructors, you are being honest with yourself. Being honest with your instructors is important because that is their job to help you succeed in your future, and it would be a waste of their time to know that you were not trying to pass the right way. But really, it would mainly be a waste of your time to be cheating, because it only hurts you in the long run. You are not learning anything, so why are you wasting your time going to school? To get to where you want to go after high school, you have to learn everything on your own.
Maybe some reasons students choose the route of cheating is to maybe get by in one class they think they won’t need in the future. Or maybe deciding plagiarism (being the practice of claiming, or implying, original authorship of (or incorporating material from) someone else's written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one's own without adequate acknowledgement) is the best way to get through their English paper. (More about plagiarism at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism) So what could it hurt? A lot. If a student at Butler gets caught cheating, depending on the situation, you can be put on probation, be suspended, or completely expelled. You can see the Butler rules and guidelines at the following link. http://butlercatalog.butlercc.edu/2006-07_catalog/catalog%20pdfs/pg175-187%20Enr&AcadInfo.pdf.
Some suggestions that I have for not cheating is finding ways not to get so stressed with your homework, and thinking you do have to cheat to pass. At Butler ,tutoring could be an option for you, and if you want support, you can visit http://www.butlercc.edu/learning_res_div/index.cfm to find out about their services.