Week #12: Klausman, Plagiarism, and the Internet

The article "Teaching about Plagiarism in the Age of the Internet" discusses a very prevalent issue in today's educational world. I can identify with the students that are encouraged now to use at least one paper source when it used to be encouraging one Internet source. The Internet has become a new kind of library to the students researching and writing papers. Not only is plagiarism a problem for students but finding reliable sources is another hurdle whenlloking at online information. I just finished a paper for my history class this last weekend and it's difficult to find the information you need, from a source that's valid, and then paraphrase/cite it properly. One thing I learned from the article was that there are different kinds of plagairism: direct, parahprase, and patchwork plaigairaism. The last two are unintentional. One thing that confused me was why using different sources for a paragraph made a difference. If that source was the only source helpful for the topic of the paragraph why would others be needed?