Academic misconduct encompasses a wide range of academic violations, most often related to cheating. Such actions create an unfair academic advantage for oneself and/or a disadvantage for other students. Our team of student defense attorneys, led…
The discussion of plagiarism has increased over the decades. In March 2020, ICAI researchers administered an updated version of the McCabe survey to 840 students across various college campuses and discovered that 58% of the students…
Three steps you should take if your child is accused of plagiarism Accusations of plagiarism have long been a consideration of both parents and students, even more so now, with the role that the internet plays…
Cheating has become that much more ubiquitous with the explosive popularity of the internet across the past couple of decades, and a worldwide pandemic that forced education online for a year. Having no option but to…
Here at DC Student Defense, a problem we regularly encounter is with self-plagiarism. If you are a student, you may be very familiar, or at least somewhat familiar, with what plagiarism is. Plagiarism is taught to…
Coming from a sea town just north of Boston, it is fair to say we have an overwhelming amount of sailors, seamen and general oceanic folk. There’s a metaphor I was taught in grade school about…