These are not new ideas. They are probably escalated and magnified as a result of living in the digital age, but the idea of plagiarism and the idea of cheating is not new. Just the environment around it has changed. You've gone from basically copying out of books, you know, a student could sit down and just literally type out an entire section of a book. Now, you can just cut and paste it from an Internet article. Fundamentally, you're doing the same thing.
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