Plagiarism is nothing new.
But, as I see it, electronic access to information and the ability to manipulate it facilitates three new types of plagiarism. Some students intentionally cut and paste paragraphs from a variety of digital sources, keenly aware that their teachers are not likely to spend hours on the Web trying to track down all the original documents. Such sites are easy to find. Yahoo lists several under the category of shopping. They can require students to submit outlines, concept maps, and working bibliographies well in advance of the due date.