Increasingly students will use internet sources to help them with their homework: used thoughtfully and critically, these can be an excellent tool.
However this also presents an interesting dilemma: with such a wealth of information available, it can be all-too-easy to ‘copy and paste’ a homework answer or even a coursework essay rather than processing the information and making it their own original work. Copying someone else’s work is plagiarism – whether it’s the person working next to you, or copying and pasting from the internet.