July 13, 2001

Internet Plagiarism: We All Pay the Price

By ELLEN LAIRD

When I first read Chip's essay last year, I was ecstatic. Chip (an alias) had clearly absorbed class lessons on specificity, readership, and organization in writing. In fact, he had gone further. He had shown that he could write a clever thesis and select examples perfectly suited to the topic. My enthusiasm darkened to suspicion upon a second reading, however. Chip was an A student in the course, but his essay seemed a bit too mature in content and focus, compared with his previous work. His

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