2-2 Short Paper: Cheating CultureAssignment Review the articles found from the links below and chose one article on which to write your paper. Internet plagiarism in higher education: tendencies,...

Review the articles found from the links below and chose one article on which to write your paper.

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  Internet plagiarism in higher education: tendencies, triggering factors and reasons among teacher candidates
  


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  Cheating in Higher Education: The Case of Multi-Methods Cheaters
  

  
  


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  Academic Dishonesty: Behaviors, Sanctions, and Retention of Adjudicated College Students
  


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  To Cheat or Not to Cheat: Academic Dishonesty in the College Classroom
  


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  Academic Dishonesty: Are More Students Cheating?
  

As you read, consider how educational goals and the American value placed on educational success could produce strain as detailed by sociologist Robert Merton.

Then write a short paper that applies Merton's Anomie Theory "modes of adaptation" to educational cheating.

For your paper, begin with a summary of your selected article. What form or forms of academic dishonesty were presented? What rationalization, motivations, neutralizations, excuses, or contextual considerations for cheating were detailed?

Write a paper responding to these questions:
Which of Merton's adaptations (ritualists, rebelling, innovation, or retreatism) best apply to the article? Why?

To complete this assignment, review theShort Paper/Case Study Analysis Rubric> document.