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Thursday, September 04, 2003
A Campus Fad That's Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism - SARA RIMER, New York Times
A study conducted on 23 college campuses has found that Internet plagiarism is rising among students. 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.
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