A Campus Fad That's Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism (NY Times)

Thirty-eight percent of the undergraduate students surveyed said that in the last year they had engaged in one or more instances of "cut-and-paste" plagiarism involving the Internet, paraphrasing or copying anywhere from a few sentences to a full paragraph from the Web without citing the source. Almost half the students said they considered such behavior trivial or not cheating at all.

Only 10 percent of students had acknowledged such cheating in a similar, but much smaller survey three years ago.

Edited to add link to full story.

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Clancy's picture

Performative piece?

I edited this post to add a link to the full story and to italicize the quotation from it. If this was intended to be a performative piece with no attribution or signal that the passage was a quotation, I apologize for messing that up. :)




CultureCat

Whoops

Sorry about that -- I certainly didn't mean to take credit for writing that excerpt from an article on plagiarism.

Dennis G. Jerz

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