Maure The Moor Of Venice

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This case study explains how Maure LeChale-Engedd, a freshman student at Gnognead Thoonotin University, was given an assignment by his British Literature professor on Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice. The professor informed the students that it was not a research paper, but their own literary analysis of the play. Maure constructed an outline and then wrote the rough draft of his literary analysis. An acquaintance, an upperclassman that previously took the course, suggested that Maure use his study aid that he had used while he took the course. This particular study aid was a copy of the Spark Notes on Shakespeare’s, Othello. Maure used the ideas and details in the study aid to revise and fluff his rough draft. With newfound …show more content…

Schools have enforced several rules and policies which restrict students from cheating on exams and plagiarizing their assignments. In Maure’s case, the professor did not explicitly state that the use of study aids is not allowed. However, I think a motion should be put in place to not allow Maure to submit his final draft because the paper is not his “own” literary analysis. In turn, that will set the maxim that one will act on to become a universal law. By not allowing Maure to turn in his final draft, the policy in place against academic dishonesty stands, Maure learns to not steal other individuals’ work, and the students are actually earning their grades. The purpose of applying this theory is to behave the way one would want others to behave. If other students see that the professor is not accepting plagiarized work, then they will take the proper measures of completing their assignments on their own. By taking the necessary standards to encourage the students to use their own knowledge, the standard has been set on how to respond to ethical dilemmas of this kind. It should be the duty of people in a position to help a large portion of the student population to do …show more content…

The end may be a grade or a career, but in the process you should be gaining knowledge and skills. To make sure students are gaining knowledge, rules, assignments and exams have been put in place. The fact that school officials have taken a stance on the issue of academic dishonesty ties into Deontological ethics. Deontology is the study of moral obligations that judges’ morality based on actions in adherence to rules or laws. In Deontological ethics, an action is considered morally good because of some characteristic of the action itself, not because the product of the action is good. Deontological ethics holds that at least some acts are morally obligatory regardless of their consequences for the well-being of humans. Deontology is based on a lot of moral rules such, it is wrong to steal, it is wrong to kill innocent people, or it is right to keep promises. Since Deontology will tend ignore outcomes and view some tasks as morally good due to a characteristic of the action, then the professor should not allow the submission of Maure’s final

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