I have been interested over the past couple years on how "Internet plagiarism" would play itself out and what kind of decisions would be made over it. First, there were warnings to students but I personally always knew friends that ignored them and didn't care because they didn't think they would get caught. I was always too scared and also I didn't like turning in a paper that I could not recite for a teacher if asked to. The only way I figured I could plagiarize was if I read something and couldn't figure out any other way to say it that sounded like my writing. I think every writer has a certain voice and teachers who have read other things a person has written may see something and not believe it was from that person. Regardless of all the reasons, I was never a plagiarizer but many people were. Turnitin.com changed that a little as strict teachers started forcing kids to turn their papers in electronically so that a program could match it up against other papers found on the Internet. This worked for a while as everyone was scared, but I never actually heard of anyone getting caught or getting in serious trouble from turnitin.com. Since being in college, the problem has only continued and I have seen students copy and paste whole parts of papers, or just take the whole paper itself, and turn it in. I found this article that showed an example of a professional company being caught for plagarism and I thought I'd show it, but I don't think the problem will get any better in the future. In fact, I feel the more the Internet is up and running, the more articles and papers will find themselves published on it and the harder it will be to stop.
Link-http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/sunderland-based_magazine_cook.html
