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1. "Kids'
sense that it is wrong to cheat has been clearly diluted."
2. Plagiarism
is one form of dishonesty.
3. "Do
you want to go to a doctor who cheated his way through anatomy
class, or drive over a bridge built by an engineer who cheated?" asks
Donald McCabe, founder of the Durham, N.C.-based Center for
Academic Integrity, which promotes anti-cheating campaigns
on more than 200 college campuses.
4. Such lack
of understanding about what actually constitutes plagiarism indicated
that "the majority of students probably engage in inadvertent
plagiarism."
5. Students cannot be expected to avoid plagiarizing
unless they understand what it is and how to avoid it.
