"Universities are reviewing their plagiarism policies to clamp down on students who use Facebook to cheat.
Plagiarism experts have warned universities and colleges to be aware of students copying from each other when discussing coursework on social networking sites.
Gill Rowell, from the consultancy Plagiarism Advice, said universities needed to rework their plagiarism policies with 'internet working in mind' but insisted institutions were taking cheating seriously enough."
Although Facebook gets the headline--and obviously represents one form of what could be called collaborative dishonesty--the article goes on to talk about Wikipedia and Googled essays as other sources of plagiarized material.
