How do students cheat/plagiarize?
A. Plagiarism The Internet. In today’s information age, access to information has become incredibly quick and easy. There are numerous sites that offer cheap (or even free) student essays on a myriad of topics. Paper mill sites, however, are not the only resources available to cheaters. Students can cut and paste information from basically any Website, and insert it into their essays. Recycling other students’ essays. Fraternities, sororities, and friends are all sources where your students can find papers to submit in lieu of their own work. Copying from sources without crediting the original author. This is one of the subtlest forms of plagiarism. For instance, a student could write half of a paper, but fill up the other half with copied material that is not cited. However, this can be easily detected because of the inevitable inconsistency in writing style. Students can do this either intentionally or unintentionally. Remember that some students may be unaware of the need to cite so
