(1) Introduction Article 1 Title : Lessons in Internet Plagiarism Writer : Katie Hafner Source : The New York Times.

(2001, June 28) With plagiarism in mind, this article discusses the extent of plagiarism in the era of Internet. More specifically, the writer seeks to address the root causes of plagiarism among American students. The writer managed to capture this reasons of plagiarizing among students by seeking for the rationalizations made by those students who plagiarized. These students failed to get a grasp on the basic concept of intellectual property, i.e., the notion that the original owner of a certain concept or idea has to be recognized prior to utilizing the said idea or concept. Hence, these students tend to think that any information that they found in Internet plagiarism are public property. These students also think they can safely plagiarize and get away with it as there are more inept at Internet than their teachers.. These students also argued that plagiarizing is ubiquitous as many other students are also involved in this type of academic dishonesty. Next, these students tried to account for the act of plagiarism by blaming it on external factors that were out of control of these students. They have even cited social influences as the reason behind their plagiarism. According to them, plagiarism is widespread, not only among the students. Others are blaming the highly competitive nature of American college admission as the drive behing their fraudulent act of plagiarism.

Also, these students think the more they write the better it is. Hence, they resort to scrapping from the Internet as getting more details to pack in their assignments. Finally, it is the lackadaisical attitudes of the parents of these students are also to be blamed. These parents do not understand that the act of plagiarizing is indeed an intellectual fraud. They tend to downplay this fact.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2003/feb/11/highereducation.research/print