This statement is upheld by the APA, according to Cathey Weir, which does not accept as valid any information for which the author is unknown. There was some talk of adding web citation technique to course syllabi, but like the first year experience, syllabi are getting more and more overburdened. Andy Vogt proposed simply printing out web sites that are used, which seems like a solid method but is printer and paper intensive. Cook pointed out that citation is not the only issue to discuss here. There are cases of dishonesty which go beyond a citation oversight.
Students can download prewritten papers and on occasion do.
Though he has not personally investigated internet sites that offer papers to pirate, he wonders if it makes sense for the college to do so, and perhaps to keep a file of such sites and their products. Both Wingate and Satterwhite have some experience with such web sites and their products and asserted that it would be useless to create such a file. A brief interview with a student will reveal that he or she does not know about what was written. The ease of discovering such faulty products is accompanied by extreme difficulty in tracking down the source on the web. There are numerous sites that provide paper writing services, many of which custom-write papers for a fee and never make the paper generally available for download.