id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15673 Ercegovac, Zorana; Richardson, John V. Academic Dishonesty, Plagiarism Included, in the Digital Age: A Literature Review 2004-07-01 18 .pdf application/pdf 10076 684 53 Her definition comes from several sources, including Black’s Law Dictionary, The Oxford English Dictionary, Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, and K. R. St. Onge’s work, The Melancholy Anatomy of Plagiarism.26 In one of her general education classes at Colgate University, Rebecca Moore Howard found that one-third of her stu- dents plagiarized an assigned paper.27 She characterized student plagiarism as “patchwriting,” which she defined as “copying from a source text and then de- leting some words, altering grammatical structures, or plugging in one synonym for another.” In competitive classrooms across the board, under parent pressure to produce high grades, many students, including those from professional schools, have been found guilty of academic miscon- duct and plagiarism.154–157 This finding has been well documented with scores of studies about high school students by Niels.158 Kibler divided his literature review into “Personal Characteristics of Cheaters” and “Situational Factors In- volved in a Student’s Decision Whether to Cheat.” cache/crl-15673.pdf txt/crl-15673.txt