Plagiarism and the Internet

Running Head : Plagiarism through Technology

Technology as a Means to Plagiarize

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Introduction There are several ways of cheating in school nowadays whether it is an exam or

submitting a required , there are always some students who are encouraged to cheat . For

instance , during an examination , they can always look into their PDAs or ask classmates for

answers via a text message through the cellular phone . When it comes to essays or any

written project

for that matter , there is always the internet to copy and paste it from without

properly acknowledging the author or citing the source and of course there are also

companies which offer to accomplish the project for them . It is a good thing though that there

are also ways to detect plagiarism and that almost all universities do not tolerate such

activities by implementing punishments to those who committed such

Technological Means of Plagiarizing Students ' ways of cheating during exams include the following

First is through the use of what is technically referred to as the PDA or Personal

Digital Assistant (Tech-FAQ , 2008 , n .p . This kind of technology stores data which may be

retrieved and used during an exam (Tech-FAQ , 2008 , n .p . In addition to that , it has the

ability to connect to the internet as well and so answers to the questions given in the exam

may just be searched using that and may be copied directly by the student before submitting it

to the teacher (Tech-FAQ , 2008 , n .p

Another is through the cellular phone which may be used by students to plagiarize

because of its text messaging ' feature (History of Mobile Phone n .d , n .p . This feature

allows the cellular phone user to send whatever message he or she wants to send (History of

Mobile Phone , n .d , n .p . A student can then just send a text asking for an answer for the

exam and he or she will get it once the receiver agrees to send a response (History of Mobile

Phone , n .d , n .p There are also students ' ways to plagiarize their s and some of these are the

following

First is through the internet ' which is technically defined as a worldwide , publicly

accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data using the

standard Internet Protocol (Glossary of Terms , n .d , n .p . This means that if someone

wanted to be informed about a certain concept , he or she can just search through the internet (Glossary of Terms , n .d , n .p . Students who cannot get a book for research , or is just lazy

can just search his or her , copy and paste the information found without paraphrasing

and citing the source , thus committing plagiarism (Glossary of Terms n .d , n .p

Another way of carrying such out is through the help of essay companies selling

s to students (Couglan , 2007 , n .p . The students who buy these commit plagiarism

because they...