The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education. Home - Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education. Institute for Global Ethics: Promoting Ethical Action in a Global Context. How the Internet Affects Plagiarism. Big Ideas Culture Brandi Jordan Plagiarism is nothing new. Students have been plagiarizing far before the Internet was widely available — whether it was copying from the encyclopedia or hiring professionals. But the Internet and the explosion of online resources has made it easier for students to get to those resources. You’ll find a number of websites geared specifically to cheating — sites where you can buy papers, for example. But even if students opt not to pay-to-cheat, the Internet does seem to make it easier to lift content.
But by those very same standards, it also means that plagiarism is much easier to identify. Even though plagiarism is often easily identifiable via a simple Web search, many schools have opted to purchase one of the many plagiarism-checking software programs currently on the market. Some of the key finds from the paper include: The TurnItIn research suggests that students really are trying to “do the right thing.”
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