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Sunday, May 26, 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/408408p-3256855c.html Teachers claim Web sites offer students easy cheating chance ALEJANDRA NAVARRO, Modesto Bee Plagiarism has always existed, some say since the birth of formal education. But the Internet has made the temptation to steal words much harder to resist. Faculty members say some students create entire papers using a patchwork of paragraphs from different sources without giving the original author credit for the words or ideas. Some students cut corners with research papers because they feel the pressure to earn top grades; other students do it to keep up with their classmates. Still others do not see the crime in lifting a few lines of someone else's work. In a 2000-01 survey, more than half of 4,500 high school students said they had used sentences from Internet sources without citing them, according to Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe. Of those students, about a third said they cheated because they "didn't study" or they were "lazy."...
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