The Information Revolution has had a strong impact on education. For example, few research tools are more beneficial to students than the resources available on the Internet. With a few clicks of a mouse, students have access to material unavailable in their local libraries. Ideally, students use this information to help them write more comprehensive reports and essays. However, not every student is equally ethical, as the epidemic of plagiarizing Internet sources indicates.

Plagiarism is hardly new to academics: Students unable or unwilling to research and write their own assignments have often copied directly from encyclopedias or other works. With the Internet, however, students do not even have to leave their bedroom to find material to pilfer. Sara Burnett, in an article for Community College Week, suggests that the Internet has actually altered the values of today’s students. She...