A lot of younger people, especially undergraduate students, do not think that getting information from the web is necessarily plagiarism since they cannot find an author to give credit to the source, such as Wikipedia. Many young people are used to downloading music, often illegally, so they do not think that grabbing information from the internet should be any different. A lot of critics believe that this is cutting individualism out and creating laziness. A survey was done, and it was reported that 40% of 14,000 undergraduate students admitted to plagiarizing at some point before in their college career.
If you go to a see a standup comedian perform, you might use one of his jokes that he said for presentation or for some other reason. It’s hard to know whether or not to give credit to the joke because somebody else might of said the same one before
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