Ethics and the Internet Address the following case in a minimum of 300 words: Pl

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Ethics and the Internet

Address the following case in a minimum of 300 words:

Plagiarism is a significant potential problem in secondary education. A fellow student tells you of a great website that contains numerous completed essays. While you are doing your own work and getting good grades, you have a professor that grades on a curve.

Answer the following questions in your essay:

1. Do you take the chance and use the website for assistance with a particularly difficult assignment, or do you take a potentially low grade?

2. Would your answer be different if you knew there was almost no chance of getting caught? What if you were guaranteed to not get caught?

3. What if you also found out that others in your class are using the site?

Also compare this situation to a situation in the business world. Answer the following questions:

a. In what business situations are you likely to encounter ethical issues concerning use of another's work?

b. What obligations do you have to your business to ensure that all the work you submit is either your own or properly credited to the originator?

c. Are there areas other than written text where you should be concerned?

d. What ethics do you use to guide you in these situations (both the use of pre-done paper as well as in business)?

Explain your answers.

Explanation / Answer

Yes. If I have no idea about the topic that I am preparing then just to get the idea and my mind clear about the topic I would take the help of the website. However, I would not copy material for my essays from the website. I would try and get as many grades as possible by not copying. I would take some important matter from the article or website then would properly mention with valid reasoning of taking that matter in my essay or writing.

No. My answer would not be different even I was not being caught for copying.

Others can do what they want to, it’s completely their choice. I would try to explain and convince them to do it on their own but at last it is their wish.

Business situations like copying a presentation, not acknowledging the subordinate who has done the hard work and taking credit for the result, and presenting someone else’s idea or innovation as my own.

There is a legal obligation as the originator may sue the business for copying. My obligation to the organization is an ethical one. Taking credit for someone else’s work is an insult to my own intelligence, as that will prove that I don’t possess the necessary skills or talent to produce something like that on my own.

As discussed above, copying a presentation, not acknowledging the subordinate who has done the hard work and taking credit for the result, and presenting someone else’s idea or innovation as my own.

Ethics and morals of humanity are used by me in these situations to act in a proper way.

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