They say honesty is the best policy. I personally think a little white lie here and there is sometimes the best policy. Nothing good comes out of telling your friend they look fat in their favorite outfit or that their new haircut makes them look like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber<\/i>.<\/p>\n
In all your classes your professors tell you that Academic Integrity is not only morally right, but it is the only way to pass your classes. This makes all of those long hard essays I talked about in my last post seem even more grueling. How is it possible to write five or eight pages with only your own words?!<\/p>\n
Easy, when you truly understand what it means to have Academic Integrity. You can use other people\u2019s words! Just quote them. My learning assistants help me name drop long meaningful quotes into all of my essays.\u00a0 These quotes not only take up space, they allow you to use other people\u2019s ideas and words to support your own claims. Another important thing to remember when you work so hard on spinning out those pages is you can still tell a lie. You just cannot<\/b> lie about statistics or use other people\u2019s works as your own.\u00a0 But! You can actually tell five pages worth of lies, if they are your own lies. I have done it.<\/p>\n
An essay for my communications class required me to explain a failed relationship I have been in and analyze why it failed. Just between you and me, I haven\u2019t had enough relationships to talk about how they failed. A week isn\u2019t enough relationship to analyze for a five page paper. Like I said in my last post, I enjoy sitting in the classroom and complain to my LA\u2019s and advocates (advocates are like mini LA\u2019s, they only work a few hours a week rather than all week like LA\u2019s). I believe my droning went something like, \u201cI don\u2019t know how to write this paper! I haven\u2019t even had a relationship since fifth grade and I don\u2019t remember that one well enough to analyze it for five pages.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMake a relationship up,\u201d said one of the Advocates.<\/p>\n
So I did. It was five pages of why my relationship with Jimmy failed. It analyzed all the stages of ending a relationship, just as our instructor wanted. I got a high A on the essay. It turns out my imaginary relationship which came to a terrible imaginary end, was a beautiful relationship with my GPA. My Res\u2019 College staff help me out so much. \u00a0They keep me inspired to do more and better yet they informed on what is safe to say and what would get me into trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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