Students Plagiarize Less Than Many Think

writes \”The Chronile of Higher Education says a new study by two professors at the Rochester Institute of Technology concludes that online plagiarism is not nearly as widespread as has frequently been suggested.


\”There\’s been a lot of media hype over the last couple of years, assuming that the Internet is going to cause a rash of academic dishonesty,\” says Mr. Scanlon. \”While the number of students we found using the Internet to plagiarize is still troubling … it isn\’t the epidemic that\’s been trumpeted. At least, not yet.\”