http://www.plagiarism.org/
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/resources/handouts-demos/citation/plagiarism
Technology has allowed plagiarism to become a more prevalent issue in recent years, as it is easy for students to find work that belongs to other people online. Once something is posted online, it can always be found and it is easy for students to find a paper on their topic online by going to a search engine and typing in what the paper is on. Students do this when they forgot about an assignment, have run out of time to do it, or are just lazy and don't think they will be caught. However, now colleges and universities are also using technology to prevent plagiarism which is supposed to discourage students from taking that route. Colleges are doing this by warning students that if they are caught for being guilty of plagiarism they will be kicked out of school to try and show them that it isn't worth the risk. Also, colleges are making students submit their papers online and then the papers are run through the web to see how much of the paper has come from alternative sources. While technology is enabling plagiarism, colleges are doing everything they can to get students to choose alternative routes.
You make a good point that while technology enables plagiarism, college administrators try to prohibit it. It's going to be a constant battle because you can't stop what people put on the Internet.
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