Students will quit submitting the works found on the Web when the chances are very good they will be easily caught. That's pretty easy given Google and other search engines into which a few "suspicious words" will generate the original source of the material.

In the meantime, students who search the Web and use it constructively will enjoy nice benefits.

At 11:30 PM -0400 9/30/04, Maria Cervone wrote:
This is a good first thought for knowledge sharing. One word of caution, though: teachers are already struggling with a rampant problem of students purchasing term papers on the internet and turning them in as if it were their own work. If term papers were included in Wikipedia, it would make it all the more easy for students to cheat. I personally don't understand why a student would want to do so, as little knowledge is gained when the effort is minimal. Unfortunately all too many students haven't learned that yet...

Maria Cervone
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University of Michigan

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