A Plague of Plagarism Hits UK Universities

This is a real problem for teachers everywhere these days.  Moreso,
I would imagine, in large impersonal classes where the insructor doesn’t
have time to get to know the students and their writing individually. In
my classes, we have seen enough student writing by the time we
get to research papers (week 8 of a 13-week semester) that most plagarism
is easy to detect.

Also by assigning unique or specific analytic questions involving local or personal aspects one can make
it extremely hard to find a sorce on the internet addressing the same
issues. However, this requires thought and planning.

For Anna, 22, a final year student in south-east England, internet plagiarism
is a natural part of undergraduate life.

For the past three years, she says, she has been submitting essays bought
and copied from the internet and passing them off as her own.

She is currently working on her final-year project and most of the materials
in the dissertation are coming off the net.

Anna (not her real name) says she cheats because it is easy to get away
with it.

"
It is easier, because sometimes when you go to the library you can’t
find the necessary books or you have too much to read," she says.

from
the BBC