ABSTRACT
Every teacher will encounter situations where impressive and substantial pieces of work can be produced and presented by students, amid creeping doubts as to exactly what was the individual student’s own contribution. Students, and indeed, sometimes their teachers, may remain insensitive to issues such as copying and copyright. One standard joke in this area is that to copy from one source is ‘plagiarism’. But to copy from ten is ‘research’. The problem of illegitimate copying is taken seriously in many institutions even to the extent of using electronic programs (such as Turnitin) that locate Internet text sources that closely resemble a submitted sample of text.
