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01.06.2007: Behind The Web Of Lies
The Times Higher Education Supplement June 1, 2007 Behind the web of lies Hannah Devlin Pg. 19 No. 1796 931 words Blaming the internet and IT for the rise in plagiarism does not address the root cause for students' disregard of scholarly endeavour, says Hannah Devlin The rise of new technology is often portrayed as having disastrous consequences for higher education. In particular, internet plagiarism tends to be reported in the press with a degree of moral outrage normally
Brightest Students Cashing In By Selling Notes Online
SOME of Britain's brightest students are earning hundreds of pounds by making their notes and essays available on a dedicated website. Academics said the practice could lead undergraduates to copy the work and present it as their own, and gave warning that students could be expelled for cheating. GradeGuru described itself as a note-sharing website for students who needed study aides or those with material they wanted to share for financial "reward''. The site claimed to have contributi