Don't cheat: Plagiarism rules apply on-line

Post Gazette: "Copying this sentence word-for-word would, of course, be plagiarism. But in the cut-and-paste world of the Internet, what constitutes the theft of ideas and prose? Dictionary.com defines plagiarism first as 'the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.' Its second definition is 'something used and represented in this manner.'"