Wikipedia Is The Go To Site For College Plagiarists

A new analysis of “unoriginal” writing by the anti-plagiarism site Turnitin finds that college students aren’t much better than high school students at choosing their sources. A growing number of college presidents and faculty are concerned about student plagiarism in the Internet age. But the questions raised by this analysis go beyond ethics. Wouldn’t professors be disheartened to learn that a significant share of students are harvesting their facts not from an old-fashioned encyclopedia but from Yahoo Answers? Wikipedia is the most popular source of borrowed text on the Internet in both high school and college, according to the Turnitin analysis of 33 million student papers. Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/students-need-lessons-on-where-to-find-their-facts-study-finds/2011/11/03/gIQAwTkyiM_blog.html?wprss=college-inc