Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Transitions, Topic Sentence, Conclusion

Thesis Many of those who blame other's for cheating have most likely cheated them selves, been an accomplice, or have allowed others to look off their papers. All these reasons could be due to the lack of obedience, punishment or the stress involved with getting high grades.

Transition 1 Due to the fact that now a days good grades are the number 1 priority many students compromise integrity to achieve this.

Transition 2 Messages from parents and teachers to do good under any circumstances, even when faced with stern punishments, support student’s reasons to take advantage of any opportunity to cheat.

Transition 3 While there are some punishments that have been implemented to discourage cheating as well as making it difficult to do so, other institutions have weak punishments if any at all which gives students no reason to be honest.

Conclusion

Cheating in our institutions has become more and more frequent among students as well as co-workers. This can all be attributed to either a lack of parenting, teaching, ethics and the stress upon students to do well. Describing the problems that come with cheating, and instituting more intense punishments could solve many of these problems. At the same there will always be those who just want to find the easy way out.

1 comment:

Andrea Stemaly said...

Josh-
While your conclusion is good, your thesis and topic sentences do not fully address the problems presented within each section, and there should be 4 topic sentnces. I'm going to bring some poor and good samples of these sentences to class for discussion.