Plagiarism seems to be the problem of our age of Internet easy access...

I can see my kids, the two eldest ones, when they have a work to do, I mean a research work. To use Internet to find informations about their topic and then, they used it as
found on the net. They don't even try to rewrite their own way.

When I was in school, we didn't have Internet and we were using books to do researches and, as to use informations from the books we had to write down those informations ourselves, that it did take time to do it, we were more interested by rewriting the informations the best way to understand it.

Actually it is so easy to "copy and past" the informations, even the images we do found on the net, that is seems "normal". The youngest ones don't get that to copy informations exactly the way there are on the net is Plagiarism.

I think it is one of the new job of school to inform students, to show them how to use informations from the medias, from the net, etc... so after, they will be able to consider their own work as a valuable one and they may think on that copying is plagiarism.

So, I guess I am on the side saying that prevention is a whole lot better than detection, and may be a lot more effective.

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