Some journalists have dubbed this generation as the “cut-and-paste” generation, a humorous expression for a not-so-humorous accusation: plagiarism. Cutting and pasting excerpts of articles without quoting their sources is considered fraud, with more and more universities taking measures to fight against it and to penalize students who cheat.
In some cases plagiarism is unintentional – students are not knowing how to properly cite Internet information or confusing paraphrasing and polarizing. Study about plagiarism and citation (week
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