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Cut-and-paste plagiarism is no way to learn
By Maurice Wolfthal
Tribune 03/22/02
The main ideas used in this article are description/support, cause/effects, time/sequence and opinion/reason. The description/support idea in summary describes the qualities and characteristics of the internet as a tool of plagiarism, how you can use the internet to perform many searches on almost anything, like genetics, astronomy, medicine, pornography, how it is used by students to purchase sample papers for their essay etc. she also compares the good part of the internet and the bad part of it. Her idea on cause and effect reflects on how students have been given too much exposure and ability to perform plagiarism even though it existed long before the technology of world wide web, she believes the government caused all these by using taxpayers money to bring so much technology into schools and giving students the opportunity to depend solely on the internet without making an effort to read and......

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