Semiotics of cheating in exams

الملخص EN

It has been unanimously agreed that cheating, academic dishonesty or misconduct (often used interchangeably) most likely continues to be one of the biggest epidemic problems in education at all levels ; particularly, it poses a serious problem across college campuses.

Needless to say, the honor system seems to have been thrown out the window.

It has also been come up with the idea that academic dishonesty painfully has its own psychological and social roots correlated to cheating.

Obviously, there are countless ways for students to cheat.

No much attention has been paid, linguistically or whatsoever, to these ways.

What is impressing is that cheating constitutes a semiotic system ; a "science of signs"-borrowed from the discipline of linguistics.

This paper postulates that cheating has applied a semiotic system in order to understand the communicative qualities of the various “creative” tactics students use to cheat on inclass examinations.

It seeks to enhance our understanding of the It has been unanimously agreed that cheating, academic dishonesty or misconduct (often used interchangeably) most likely continues to be one of the biggest epidemic problems in education at all levels ; particularly, it poses a serious problem across college campuses.

Needless to say, the honor system seems to have been thrown out the window.

It has also been come up with the idea that academic dishonesty painfully has its own psychological and social roots correlated to cheating.

Obviously, there are countless ways for students to cheat.

No much attention has been paid, linguistically or whatsoever, to these ways.

What is impressing is that cheating constitutes a semiotic system; a "science of signs"-borrowed from the discipline of linguistics.

This paper postulates that cheating has applied a semiotic system in order to understand the communicative qualities of the various “creative” tactics students use to cheat on inclass examinations.

It seeks to enhance our understanding of the paper, the focus here is on cheating, being a discourse of power, as committed by the university students at the Department of English / College of Arts.