Thanks for the link to the article about the rise of plagiarism. My husband is adjunct faculty at the IWU campus in Cleveland, and teaches English. We’ve had several discussions about this, because he has had problems with several students in the last couple of years who have plagiarized, in some cases entire papers. But the attitude is very much like that in the article. Some of it is that they truly DO NOT know better, but some of it is “Well, I got it off the internet, so I don’t need to cite a source.”The other issue he’s running into is related to the quote from Ms Wilensky in the article, about being taught in junior high and high school to read your sources and then “synthesize them into your own original arguments…” The big problem he’s finding with his college students is that they are NOT being taught these skills in high school. I am constantly amazed (and not in a good way) at the level of BAD writing coming from these students. They don’t have the basics of grammar and punctuation mastered, much less the ability to put together complex sentences. They have NO idea how to summarize what they’ve read. It’s really sad and a bit frightening. It’s much MUCH different from the way I was taught English in the 80’s in junior high/high school, and definitely a shock compared to my own experiences in college. I’ve seen articles about the coming “demise of books” - stating that it’s due to the Kindle, e-books, etc. But after seeing the dearth of good writer coming through my husband’s classes, it could very well happen because of the total lack of people with the ability to WRITE a decent book!