Academic Honesty

I think academic honesty is not used enough. Students are continuously copying other peoples work without giving them credit, which would be considered plagiarism. A lot of the times, students don’t even know they are doing it. There are the ones who copy work straight out of a website and ones who copy bits and pieces from many websites. There are also students who take the sentences and just mix the words around a bit or replace some of the words, and a lot of time this is done without any credit given to the original resource. I think that in a research paper you should, let me put this in a simple way, research on the subject, and then with the information that you have read and your own, put it into your own words along with cite credits. Of course, working with other students on homework or sharing ideas should not be considered being academically dishonest. There are sometimes, however, students will procrastinate too long on their assignments and they think they wont be able to do it, but need it with only a little time to spare. How do they usually do this? They resort to plagiarism. Not all the time, but it happens a lot more than you would think. Students should report other students they find doing each others work or students who have plagiarized. I also think students need to be educated on what true academic honesty is, because they may be honestly plagiarizing. Meaning, they may think they are academically honest, but have been plagiarizing without knowing it.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/student/advocacy/academic_honesty_quiz.shtml
http://depts.washington.edu/grading/issue1/honesty.htm
http://www.sfu.ca/policies/teaching/t10-02.htm
http://www.mlaforum.org/volumeV/issue2/article1.html
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm