A Campus Fad That's Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism

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. —Sara Rimer
A Campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism (NY Times)

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