Thursday, October 4, 2007

Academic Honesty

The definition of plagiarism is using another's words or ideas without proper citation. This has become a growing problem with the invention of the internet. It has become too easy for students to just cut and paste a document from a website. Ways to avoid cheating are very easy to be found as well. Some people might be plagairising without even know it. Their are websites all over the internet telling you what it is and how to avoid it. Not only do students steal documents from websites, they also steal music from the internet. Their are websites you can go to download programs that were made for this very purpose. These programs are illegal and students have been known to be fined fifty thousand dollars per song that they've been caught downloading illegally.

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