Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age →
Trip Gabriel, on the NYTimes.com:
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.
I may be a supporter of the Rip. Mix. Burn. school of thought, but still, the Mix part involves producing something. You can stand on the shoulders of others, but you need to add value – even if it’s crap like mine – and always give credit.
This is not a problem of a digital-enabled confused generation, this is just lazy persons.
