Plagiarism Goes Social

"Social and user-generated Web sites are the most popular sources for student copying, says a report by the creator of a plagiarism-detection service."

Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age

"Digital technology makes copying and pasting easy, of course. But that is the least of it. The Internet may also be redefining how students — who came of age with music file-sharing, Wikipedia and Web-linking — understand the concept of authorship and the singularity of any text or image."

Journal Review Process Increasingly Includes Check for Plagiarism

"A growing number of journal publishers are checking papers for possible plagiarism as part of their review process."

Plagiarism Spawns $146-Million Ghostwriting Industry in China, Report Says

"Commercial sales of ghostwritten dissertations and journal articles were worth nearly 1 billion yuan (or more than $146-million) in 2009, a 500-percent increase over 2007, according to the study, by Shen Yang."

Cheating on Papers is a Booming Web Business

"According to the Center for Academic Integrity, in the last school year nearly a third of the faculty at its 360 college and high school member institutions reported students downloading term papers, reports or essays written by someone else from online sites known as paper mills."