Scholarship Essay: Academic Cheating Can Deprive You of a Successful Career

Plagiarism. It’s that thing that everybody talks about, your teachers mention it at the start of the year in their syllabi, and you constantly groan over because you’ve heard about it so many times. You’ve heard all the rants about how if you get caught you could be punished by the university, how it would go on your record and how you could potentially lose your job in the near and not so distant future. But for so many people, they’ll point out that big red “if” in the argument. ‘If’ you get caught, there will be all these consequences. ‘I won’t get caught,’ they say, but is it really worth that risk?