From Shake That Brain! by Joel Saltzman:
Cyberspace makes cheating on term papers easier than ever. Years ago, you had to write a check, mail it off to a term paper company, then wait to get your paper. Now you can go to sites like www.schoolsucks.com and instantly download any paper you want.
To combat the trend, a group of professors banded together and created a database of papers and a search engine to look for plagiarized papers – their way of fighting fire with fire. There is, however, a very opposite point of view.
Donald L. McCabe, a national plagiarism expert at Rutgers University says that rather than catching students AFTER the fact, "… more efforts need to go into teaching students not to cheat" in the first place. So instead of asking, "How do we catch them after they've cheated?" McCabe says we should be asking, "How do we catch them before they've cheated?"
McCabe's solution? Teach them ethics.
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