A Personal Perspective: Do you feel like you're standing still while watching others ascend around you? You're not alone.
Studies show that researchers and the tenured commit falsification and plagiarizing in varying degrees.The pressure to succeed can lead to academic dishonesty.had admitted they had plagiarized in work that was pivotal in advancing their careers , I had been thinking about the pressure to"succeed."In the seventh grade, I had glanced in “the direction of” my neighbor’s paper during an English test.
My parents elevated the notion of a degree, of attending college; not doing so was forbidden. They held academia in high esteem, perhaps feeling"less than" compared to the bookish,"sophisticated" smartness of certain others. But also, they wanted more for their kids. Neither of my parents went to college; my mother left school with a seventh-grade education, and my father finished eleventh grade.
Most Google searches yield results warning students not to plagiarize. I thought academic dishonesty by the tenured and chaired was a rarity. But many articles with some instances of the tenured stealing from their students prove otherwise. But there is an upside for me, for the part that has held the belief that those who rise to the top did it solely, completely, and fully on their own merit, smarts, and originality. Leonard Cohen wrote,"There is a crack, a crack in everything; That's how the light gets in.
No longer must I or anyone feel like we are standing still while others ascend around us. In other words, not everyone is as they appear., is a licensed clinical social worker who writes about the intersection between mental health, relationships, and matters of the heart and soul.At any moment, someone’s aggravating behavior or our own bad luck can set us off on an emotional spiral that threatens to derail our entire day.
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