#15 Abstract and Bibliography

Abstract:
In today’s depressed economy, more and more people decide to go to school and to get a nursing degree because it is one of the few careers that are still in demand. Yet, because it is a demanding career and many students want to have a degree and find a job, academic dishonesty cases among nursing students has raised significantly. Nursing, as the same as other health professions, is heavily based on skills and knowledge. Some people propose that in order to deliver quality care, nursing students should have a more strict academic dishonesty policy to force students learn what they need to know. Specifically, the nursing schools should set up an honor code since it is the most effective program against academic dishonesty so far. The paper explores two different kinds of honor code systems and their effectiveness to determine if they are useful for nursing school to reduce cheating cases.

Bibliography

• Arhin, Afua O. "A Pilot Study of Nursing Student's Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty: A Generation Y Perspective." ABNF Journal 20.1 (2009): 17-21. Print.
  
• Fleischmann, Shirley T. "Teaching Ethics: More than an Honor Code." Science & Engineering Ethics 12.2 (2006): 381-9. Print.
  
• Giddens, Jean, et al. "A New Curriculum for a NEW ERA of Nursing Education. (Cover Story)." Nursing Education Perspectives 29.4 (2008): 200-4. Print.
  
• Kolanko, Kathrine M., et al. "Academic Dishonesty, Bullying, Incivility, and Violence: Difficult Challenges Facing Nurse Educators." Nursing Education Perspectives 27.1 (2006): 34-43. Print.
  
• McCabe, Don, and Daniel Katz. "Curbing Cheating." Education Digest 75.1 (2009): 16-9. Print.
  
• McCabe, Donald, and Linda Klebe Trevino. "Honesty and Honor Codes." Academe 88.1 (2002): 37. Print.
  
• McCabe, Donald L., Kenneth D. Butterfield, and Linda Klebe Treviño. "Faculty and Academic Integrity: The Influence of Current Honor Codes and Past Honor Code Experiences." Research in Higher Education 44.3 (2003): 367. Print.
  
• McCabe, Donald L., Linda Klebe Treviño, and Kenneth D. Butterfield. "HONOR CODES AND OTHER CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: A Replication and Extension to Modified Honor Code Settings." Research in Higher Education 43.3 (2002): 357-78. Print.
  
• Academic Integrity Survey, 2010.
  
• Joel, L. (2006) The Nursing Experience, 5th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.

blog #14

Every time I make a change in my project, my project become more focus and logical. I had an idea about what I was going to write at the beginning of the class. But during the process, I made some changes to make my paper focus. Now I believe what professor Goeller said about people usually do not get the right question at first, at least I did not. I am really glad that the professor and my tutor help me get through this process, inspire me with new ideas, and help me polish my paper to make my position on the argument more clear. Writing this paper help me learn more about the pros and cons of an honor code, which I have only head its name and know little about it. During the process, I gain some level of confidence with writing a research paper.

blog #13

http://lowery.tamu.edu/common/cheating.htm
This cartoon shows Neutralization theory. The boy wrote the answers on his body and did not think his action was cheating, because in his mind, cheating behavior is “Peeking at someone else’s test”

http://researchguides.clcillinois.edu/content.php?pid=91211&sid=724148
I think this will be a good picture for showing the counter point of an honor code. In this picture, Bart Simpson is making a commitment not to plagiarize a work, which is the point of the honor codes. But the look on his face shows that it is very likely that he is going to plagiarize. Therefore, signing an honor code alone does not help students to control their behavior.