How do students plagiarize?
One easy way for students to plagiarize is to cut and paste text from websites on the Internet. This cyberplagiarism can be difficult to pinpoint. Envision a paper where a student has lifted a sentence or two directly from one Internet source, inserted some original material, followed by a close paraphrasing of a different web source, etc. Students utilize free or for-profit Internet paper mills. The paper mills that charge can be very expensive, but there is still no guarantee of the quality of the work the student will be receiving. Papers on these sites are often organized by topic. Many of them, particulary on the free paper mill sites, are written at a high school level. Using work that has been written by another student is a popular way to plagiarize. For instance, students copy other students’ work that has been posted to the Internet as parts of personal or educational sites. Students also turn in papers that have been turned in by other students in previous years. Fraternity
