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    The document discusses how students today have a more lenient view of plagiarism due to information being readily available online. A survey found that 40% of students admitted to some level of plagiarism by copying a few sentences from websites without citation. While students feel taking information directly from the internet without credit is not serious cheating, teachers view plagiarism as discouraging creativity and promoting laziness by allowing students to pass off others' work as their own.

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    The document discusses how students today have a more lenient view of plagiarism due to information being readily available online. A survey found that 40% of students admitted to some level of plagiarism by copying a few sentences from websites without citation. While students feel taking information directly from the internet without credit is not serious cheating, teachers view plagiarism as discouraging creativity and promoting laziness by allowing students to pass off others' work as their own.

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    Plagiarism Lines Blur For Students in Digital Age

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    Bonnie Kinnamont
    The document discusses how students today have a more lenient view of plagiarism due to information being readily available online. A survey found that 40% of students admitted to some level of plagiarism by copying a few sentences from websites without citation. While students feel taking information directly from the internet without credit is not serious cheating, teachers view plagiarism as discouraging creativity and promoting laziness by allowing students to pass off others' work as their own.

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    1. Student thoughts toward 1. Students from several different universities seem to take a
    plagiarism light view on plagiarism from online articles. Students think
    2. Plagiarism is common that because it’s online, it’s free for anyone and that credit
    3. Teacher’s thoughts doesn’t need to be given.
    2. 2006 – 2010 40% of 40,000 undergrads admit to plagiarism in
    the form of a few copied sentences. Students believe copying
    from web isn’t serious cheating.
    3. Plagiarism doesn’t foster creativity, it allows students to be
    lazy. Students seem to just throw together information found
    and try to pass it off as their own thoughts or ideas

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