Introduction
I can still recount the day my best friend in 4th grade, Sammy, was waiting outside the principal’s office, with nothing but regret filling his eyes, waiting for his mother who was summoned for a meeting with the principal. That’s because Sammy was caught cheating."Cheating" is defined as the intentional misrepresentation of the nature, source, or other aspects of academic work in order to receive undue credit, or to take part in such a representation with someone else (ACA). In order to understand the act of cheating in OCC, we must look at the topic as a whole. In ...