Cheaters

This week in Wikipedia, we reviewed citations. I already have experience with citations using MLA style formatting. Citations are very important to use in writing papers. Citations recognize the work or ideas of another person if you have used their work. Using citations properly will prevent plagiarism. If you don’t know whether to cite something or not you always should. If you cite any material you have looked up, you should never get accused of paraphrasing or plagiarism unless you copy it word for word. It is your responsibility to understand plagiarizing and to know the consequences of cheating. In addition to cheating, there are other unethical forms of cheating or lying in school or in life. We read a good article this week about software engineers and the impact of the deliberate programming errors that are made. The potential impact could lead to death or injuries. When a person is capable of cheating on papers they could possibly cheat on anything. In this article, the programmers were cutting corners and their bosses knew they were doing this and in some instances pushing them to do it. I would never want to ride on an airplane or drive a car that has had a programmer that cheated. Have you ever heard the saying, “Cheaters never win”? I believe that is true and would recommend not taking the chance.